Sentence examples for sliced off from from inspiring English sources

"In the long run, the fact that abortion was sliced off from mainstream medicine has had dire consequences," Stengle said.

"A patch of living flesh equal in dimension to the preceding leaf should be sliced off from the region of the cheek and, after scarifying it with a knife, swiftly adhered to the severed nose," Sushruta advised.

Obama's purpose, besides appearing gracious, polite, respectful, and open-minded, was to slice off from whatever McCain had said the part that he (and the audience, presumably) had no problem with, the better to isolate and obliterate the part he did have a problem with.

"And then he sliced off a bomb from my chest with a sword he'd just taken out of a sword swallower's mouth," Jones said.

That created a trade deficit that sliced off 1.76 percentage points from GDP growth instead of 2.01 percentage points.

In most gene expression studies, a piece of the liver is sliced off, and RNA extracted from this particular part of the organ.

Three uranium metal samples were investigated: 180 mg powder from an uranium cube received from BfS (Heisenberg cube I), a 1 mm thick, 47.8 g metal piece sliced off an uranium cube from the "Atomkeller-Museum" in Haigerloch (Heisenberg cube II), and several small pieces (weights vary) sawed off from the Wirtz plate.

They claim that the fate of Afghan women such as 18-year-old Aisha, whose nose and ears were sliced off as retribution for running away from her husband's home, is horrific, but irrelevant.

Julio Cesar Mondragón was found the next day with his eyes gouged out and the skin of his face sliced off, just a few streets away from where the police attack took place.

When a case settled, Mr. Lerach, in effect, took money from shareholders, sliced off a large percentage for his firm and gave whatever was left back to shareholders.

Mr. Montilla brought over a power saw and sliced off a seven-inch piece from the edge of the plastic pot.