Sentence examples for severing from inspiring English sources

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severing

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Present participle of sever

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The pilot was unable to stop the plane, which slid down the slopes, narrowly missing a group of children and passing under a chairlift before clipping the woman and nearly severing her hand.

The Scout Association, however, said it was not considering severing its royal ties.

This is said to include severing the link between an analyst's pay and the revenues a bank earns on any deal he works on.

This used to be impossible to block without severing the server's internet link altogether.

But once elected, a Conservative government is sure to pick some fights.In the European Parliament, the Tories are committed to severing their formal link with the other main centre-right parties in the European People's Party, and to set up a new formation of more sceptical parties, taking in allies from the ex-communist east.

Severing Fiji's relatively easy access to South Pacific markets could seriously damage the clothing and footwear industry.

As a man used to "tremendous transience", a European cosmopolite with four languages, he warmed to these travelling players; and they to him, because he could open gilded doors.To sort out the "rats' nest" of their financial affairs required not only severing the Klein connection, but temporary exile from Britain to escape swingeing taxes.

The only thing that worries me is that, like a junkie going through cold turkey, the anxiety of not having a Wi-Fi signal will be more stressful than severing the cord with work.

A crew of 30 Mexican grape-pickers, wearing headlamps and orange safety vests, races down the rows in silence, deftly severing the bunches with crescent-shaped knives and dropping them into plastic bins.

The welcome ceremony provided confirmation that Greece's leftist government, whose leader Alexis Tsipras is a professed atheist, does not plan to proceed quickly with its declared aim of severing the country's close ties between church and state.

The churches urgently need to make such things transparent, argues Thomas von Mitschke-Collande, a former consultant at McKinsey who has written another critique of Germany's Catholic church.In the meantime ever more Germans respond by severing their affiliation with institutionalised religion.

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