Of all the statements released last week regarding Allen Stanford, perhaps the most grimly amusing was the chief executive David Collier's revelation that the England Cricket Board had "determined to suspend" relations with its former sugar daddy – analogous in some respects to drowning passengers on the Titanic determining to suspend relations with the White Star Line.
Steve Melbourne, said that the council's decision to suspend relations had not affected work with the Iraqi Army and that troops conducted joint patrols in the city on Thursday.
Uruguay, responding to Cuba's criticism, suspended relations.
In its statement, Dior said it had "immediately suspended relations" with Mr. Galliano and "initiated dismissal procedures".
Rather, they said the administration still recognizes Mr. Arafat's leadership and was not considering suspending relations with him and his Palestinian Authority.
The Russian Orthodox Church announced that it was suspending relations with the Episcopal Church U.S.A. because of the consecration as bishop this month of V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, who is openly gay.
In Karbala, another Shiite holy city north of Najaf, the governor, Akeel al-Khuzai, said he was suspending relations with the American authorities to protest the detention of two people suspected of belonging to the Mahdi Army, Iraqi officials said.
There were periods, it is true, when gossip rustled around Oxford, and the Liddells briefly suspended relations with Carroll; but the source of the gossip is hard to trace.
Ms Blears recently suspended relations with the Muslim Council of Britain, the biggest of the Islamic community groups, after a senior figure allegedly endorsed violence against foreign ships preventing arms from entering Gaza.
The Chinese had suspended relations with the Pentagon for much of 2010 to protest American arms sales to Taiwan and a January 2010 visit to the White House by the Dalai Lama.
Although Turkey was among the first countries to recognize Armenia in 1991, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the border between the two countries has been closed since 1993, when Turkey suspended relations to protest Armenian advances on Azeri territory.
