Sentence examples for severance from the from inspiring English sources

They also agreed not to collect any further payments such as severance from the fraternity.

They feared that he would react badly to severance from the booze while in hospital.

"She asked for severance from the service and a financial offer," he said.

Ms. Fiorina, of course, is not impoverished, having accepted a $21 million severance from the board of Hewlett-Packard in 2005.

Within each state the necessary psychological atmosphere would be kept up by complete severance from the outer world, and by a continuous phony war against rival states.

My own abrupt and painful severance from the Times is the least of it, though revealing of his methods of defenestration.

Every year it receives several million dollars in tax severance payments from the coal industry, and every June it plays host to the West Virginia Coal Festival, with fireworks, a beauty pageant, a memorial service for dead miners, and displays of the latest mining equipment.

Other characteristics of American life alienated the Romantics: the distaste for tragedy (a moral corrective to illusions of invincibility); the strong preference for practicality; the severance from history; and, above all, what the Germans called bodenlosigkeit, a willed rootlessness, embodied in the flimsy frame construction of American houses.

Simon's severance package from the show made him rich enough not to need to work.

"Going skiing in the morning," said Tuberville, 54, who received $5.1 million in severance pay from the university.

It emerged last week that Ball, whose contract expires next May, is negotiating his severance pay from the broadcaster.