Sentence examples for split off by from inspiring English sources

He sees Facebook's real identity policy as a powerful weapon for truth other social networks lack, but that would be weakened if Instagram and WhatsApp were split off by regulators.

Verizon Wireless to split off by mid 2002 Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless telephone company, said it hopes to complete an initial public offering by mid 2002 after delaying the sale more than a year ago.

In the reference arm 10% of the light was split off by a fiber coupler to feed a fiber-based Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI).

China has long regarded itself as a close ally and often a leader of many of these countries, and to split off from them by denying the chance for a global climate deal would be diplomatically painful.

Among the latter, Pongo split off first, followed by Gorilla, before finally Pan and Homo diverged.

Among the groups that have been reported to be under investigation in the bombings were one with a similar name, the Jewish Defense Organization, which was split off from the Jewish Defense League by the group's leader, Mordechai Levy.

The company's TV division will also be split off into a separate unit by July 2014, with Sony restructuring to concentrate on the high-end of the market, specifically 4K models.

Triaenops menamena is currently one of four living species in the genus Triaenops; a 2009 revision by Petr Benda and Peter Vallo split off the African T. afer and the Yemeni T. parvus from T. persicus and removed three other species, including two from Madagascar, to the separate genus Paratriaenops.

Then came the letter to Major League Baseball from one of the main bidding groups, saying it was pulling out because McCourt was demanding to keep the parking lots around Dodger Stadium, which, unlike the team, are not in bankruptcy and were split off into a separate corporation by McCourt in 2005.

In 1994 House of Fraser was floated on the London Stock Exchange at a market value of £484m, with Harrods split off and kept under private ownership by Al Fayed.

Lloyds has been forced to split off and rebrand the TSB branches by the EU as a result of the £20bn of taxpayer money pumped into the bank during the 2008 bailouts.