Sentence examples for suspend relations from inspiring English sources

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.

Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform thinktank in London, said the EU could suspend relations with member states that flouted European law, as happened briefly in 2000 when Jörg Haider's far-right Freedom party joined the Austrian government.

The ECB has so far refused to comment on the extra diligence that was performed, but its decision to suspend relations with Stanford as soon as US authorities announced they were investigating the Texan businessman for fraud suggests it knew something.

But the U.S. request went further, asking countries to suspend relations with the Hussein regime, kick out Iraqi diplomats, close embassies and freeze their assets and documents "so the people who are there now can't steal them," Boucher said.

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".

Indonesia suspended relations with China in 1967 after mutual recriminations that followed the crushing of a Communist-backed coup attempt two years earlier.

Rather, they said the administration still recognizes Mr. Arafat's leadership and was not considering suspending relations with him and his Palestinian Authority.

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.

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.