Sentence examples for lost ties from inspiring English sources

With increasing urbanization, this tradition began to break down; people lost ties to their ancestral villages, and oral transmission wasn't suited to city life.

Will its mostly elderly patients, particularly those who have lived here for decades and lost ties with those on the other side, dare to cross the bridge?

I decided Facebook wasn't the enemy – it was just filling in for the broader social ties we'd lost, ties our parents and grandparents took for granted: neighbours down the road, co-workers at the union, friends at the legion hall.

Lost ties Over the past year, escalating violence in the Central African Republic has forced around 150,000 people to take refuge in Chad.

His facial expressions — frozen, confused and lost — tied it all together.

"We've already lost tie breakers with Kansas City, Cleveland and Jacksonville," he said of the three American Conference teams who defeated the Jets.

But, if a police department loses ties to its community, it becomes an occupying force.

This number may eventually decline as migrants gradually lose ties with their home villages, but for the foreseeable future this is the largest migration in human history, every single year.

However, the Giants narrowly missed the playoffs in 1988 at 10 6 by losing tie-breakers with the Eagles in their division and the Rams for the Wild card.

"Our forebears never lost historical ties," the activist says.

She said 61 affiliates had lost their ties to Habitat International since 1998, most of them voluntarily.