Walking the road, anti-clockwise, let me in on all the secrets: the vanishing hospitals, the asylums that became gated estates, military and pharmaceutical bunkers, the ever-expanding airport runways, CCTV cameras, John Wyndham villages and "severed" communities.
We have severed communication links.
Nearly 1,600 people were stranded and many cars were washed away by the flooding, while landslides severed access to several communities.
For prisoners like my sister, who have already been severed from their communities in many ways, that maternal-baby bond could be a key path to reconnection, heightening their chances (pdf) of avoiding re-offense and recidivism.
The retail store in the comparison community severed our relationship just prior to implementation.
Further, refugees who were already poised to travel to the U.S. on approved documents are now particularly vulnerable, having resigned jobs, sold all their belongings, and severed ties with their communities, only to see long-held promises of resettlement vanish overnight.
It's been said before, but those with the most money are undoubtedly the least likely to give it away – investing their relative wealth into fences and CCTV cameras to keep their detached houses as severed from the wider community as they could. .
Many pensioners consider low doses of radiation less of an issue than the severed ties with their old communities.Younger parents, meanwhile, see little hope of things ever getting back to normal.
Vienna's Christoph Cardinal Schönborn has pointed to the list of Christian communities that were severed from the body of the church by the swords of Islamic conquest in the eighth and ninth centuries, and he says this bloody tide is being exceeded in our own time.
He firmly opposed the reduction in jury trials, believing not only that this was done to improve the conviction rate but that it severed a link with the community.
It is immigration to America that has taken away her view of the water, covered over her past, severed her connection to family, community, homeland -- to her essential self.
