Sentence examples for severed communications from inspiring English sources

The government says it severed communications to ease tensions it claims were inflamed by social networking sites and text messages.

Inner Mongolian authorities deployed riot police, severed communications networks and barricaded university campuses, quashing the demonstrations shortly after they began.

[KUOW] Blocked roads and severed communications frustrate rescuers in the southern Philippines after the strongest typhoon so far this year kills at least 283 people.

The uncertainty and sense of isolation have been only magnified by the blocking of access to the Internet and shutdown of text messaging and international phone service that has severed communications in Kashgar and the entire region.

Much of the challenge was technological: the disaster severed communications lines connecting clients with eSpeed, Cantor's electronic trading platform, which by the company's estimates is used to handle more than half the trades in United States government bonds.

Libya's government also severed communications, blaming foreign meddlers, warning of chaos, and suggesting that reforms are in the offing.Even the televised speeches by Saif al-Islam and Mr Qaddafi himself, while more chilling in tone, echoed performances by Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.

McMahon said it was an attempt to sever communications between prisoners, their attorneys and the outside world.

The reasons for the newfound ability to sever communications were unclear, but Obama administration officials have said Iran, which faced a similar uprising in 2009, has provided the Syrian government, a longtime ally, with coercive supplies like tear gas, along with communications equipment that might help interrupt activists' phones.

Here is a message received on May 3 from one of my clients, a young man from Yemen: "If the government severs communications between us, and we are not able to ever meet again, I want to say to you: Thank you for standing by me in this ordeal of mine, which is the greatest ordeal I have had in my life...

Immediately prior to the start of the game, a reactor malfunction on the Unity spacecraft wakes the crew and colonists early and irreparably severs communications with Earth.

After a few meetings with a group of agents that repped nearly half of the players, he severed direct communications with them.