Sentence examples for juncture cut off from inspiring English sources
Many foreign-policy experts maintain that America cannot, at this juncture, cut off military aid to Pakistan — even if elements of the I.S.I. turn out to have harbored bin Laden.
"All political lives, unless they are cut off midstream or at happy juncture, end in failure," opined Enoch Powell.
Once the great progressive hope of the Democratic Party, he ultimately failed to defy Enoch Powell's famous dictum that "all political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure".
"ALL political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure," wrote Enoch Powell, the controversial but often perspicacious British politician, "because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs".
(Actually, it was the Conservative British politician Enoch Powell, who said, even more depressingly, "All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure").
In fact the original quote contains a sub-clause - "unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture".
"All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs," reflected the Conservative politician Enoch Powell.
But while draft papers listing possible sanctions against Iran circulate at the U.N. Security Council — the French are reportedly recommending action to cut off Iranian gasoline imports, the Americans avoiding it — the Russians seem to see the juncture as one where the Obama administration is susceptible to maximum pressure.
