Sentence examples for severing supply from inspiring English sources

That was the period most affected by the magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami on March 11, damaging factories and severing supply chains.

The militants are drawing closer to his strongholds of Homs and Damascus and are severing supply lines to Deir Ezzor in the east, which faces an overpowering Isis crackdown.

Aleppo has been the target of a major Russian-backed offensive aimed at severing rebel supply lines, and has sent tens of thousands of civilians fleeing to the Turkish border.

Next, Iraqi forces are likely to set their sights on Fallujah, another city in Anbar held by Isis, whose liberation would be an important step in severing Isis supply lines from Syria into Iraq and Mosul, the crown jewel of the group's self-proclaimed caliphate and the largest population centre under its control.

Russia's decision to turn off the taps to its oil transit pipeline through Belarus, thereby severing oil supplies to Europe, was "unacceptable," German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said.

All the occupying students have issued similar demands: a statement from their vice-chancellor condemning the Israeli bombing of Gaza; severing university investment or links with companies supplying equipment used in the conflict; sending surplus computers and books to students in Gaza; scholarships for Gazan students – and no repercussions for their activism.

Although it has been argued that cofilin may increase actin barbed ends not only through its severing activity [13], [45] but also by increasing the G-actin supply [23], the data (Fig. 7) demonstrate the crucial role of cofilin in stimulus-evoked lamellipod actin assembly, which is conserved between breast carcinoma cell lines and XTC fibroblasts.

Brigadier General Orde Wingate's "Chindits," which were long-range penetration groups depending on supplies from the air, crossed the Chindwin River in February 1943 and were initially successful in severing Japanese communications on the railroad between Mandalay and Myitkyina.

The high moral tone taken by the president over Britain's role in Rhodesia and over the supply of British arms to South Africa also strained the bonds of friendship between the two countries, with Tanzania severing diplomatic relations with Britain from 1965 to 1968.

"Shock is about severing connections.

Severing contact with your families?