Sentence examples for it cutting off from inspiring English sources

Is it cutting off its nose to spite its face?

They pulled on it, cutting off his airway, and then beat him with black sticks.

Talks continued with Russia to stop it cutting off gas supplies again.

Congress did not extend it, cutting off funds for 250,000 jobs.

The Sudanese government's response has been to lay siege to the area: bombarding it, cutting off the roads, blocking emergency supplies and most aid workers and outside observers.

"Regardless of how they might cloak it, cutting off electricity to a civilian population is collective punishment and a violation of international law," said Sarit Michaeli of B'Tselem.

But if Nintendo opts to keep the system dead forever, it certainly feels like it's cutting off its nose to spit its mustachioed face here.

When those relationships inevitably become strained as a result, she's also more likely to deal with it by cutting off instead of addressing it.

When it stopped, the butchers set upon it, first cutting off the forequarter, then teasing apart the hindquarter with hooks and boning knives.

It's the border with Turkey, and it's cutting off these road connections between Syria and Iraq.

"It doesn't really make a difference whether it's cutting off the supply from Israel or bombing the power station".