Two minutes later, Beatty ordered a course change to east-southeast, positioning the British ships to cut off the German's line of retreat, and signalled action stations.
Admiral Andrew Cunningham ordered his ships to cut off the Italian fleet from their base at Taranto, which led to the Battle of Calabria.
Having finally found Villaret, on 28 May Howe attacked, using a flying squadron of his fastest ships to cut off its rearmost vessel Révolutionnaire.
Two minutes later, Beatty ordered a course change to east south-east, positioning the British ships to cut off the Germans' line of retreat, and signalled action stations.
When Japan seized China's ship captain, China cut off rare earth supplies to Japan, and Japan promptly returned the ship captain.
The words bring to mind the first men who sailed here in their wooden ships, spending years cut off from the outside world.
In December, 1807, at Jefferson's insistence, Congress passed the Embargo Act, a drastic — and absurdly self-destructive — attempt to punish Britain for seizing American merchant ships; the act cut off all U.S. exports to any nation.
The failure of secure satellite communications systems left soldiers, ships and aircraft cut off from their commanders and vulnerable to attack.
The goal of the British ships was to cut off American supplies and encourage Loyalist support.
