Sentence examples for sever areas from inspiring English sources

In addition to cutting rebel access to eastern Aleppo city, the regime was hoping to sever areas controlled by Isis in the province from its territory in neighbouring Raqqa, SOHR spokesman Rami Abdurrahman said.

Arupjyoti Saikia, a historian and expert on the Brahmaputra who teaches at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, said that Majuli became an island in the 1760s, after a previous earthquake led to new river channels that severed the area from the mainland and, in doing so, isolated a major hub of Assamese culture and religion.

BEIRUT, Lebanon Syriaia's state news media said Thursday that government forces had "restored complete control" in a strategic, bitterly contested town east of Damascus, offering new claims — disputed by rebel fighters on the ground — that loyalist troops are reversing the flow of battle in some areas, severing a crucial insurgent supply line on the approaches to the capital.

Roads have been blocked, communications links to affected areas severed and oil and gas operation have been shut down, according to Reuters.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, a 3-year-long drought during 1999 2001 ranked the most sever with an area of impact, duration, and induced losses rarely seen in the country's history.

In August 2011, the US imposed sanctions on Syriatel, saying the Syrian government had directed the company to "sever network connectivity in areas where attacks were planned" and that it had recorded mobile-phone conversations for the security services.

Or, as the US put it, acting to "sever network connectivity in areas where attacks were planned".

In 1988 Jordan's King Ḥussein renounced all administrative responsibility for the West Bank, thereby severing his country's remaining connections with the area.

But when connections to visual areas were severed on the rewired side, the animals still responded to the light.

Communications to the hardest-hit areas were severed so the scale of damage was not immediately known.

Miami's Overtown neighborhood was devastated – churches demolished, commercial districts destroyed and residential areas literally severed from each other – by the construction of Interstate 95 [ 50].