Sentence examples for this severance from inspiring English sources

This severance of British American Indian ties led in 1814 and 1815 to a number of treaties of allegiance and land transfer between the Indians and the United States and thus opened the way to American settlement of the Northwest.

Reduced dependence on British markets led in 1979 to Ireland's joining the European Monetary System despite Britain's staying outside it; this severance of the more than 150-year link with sterling was affirmed in 2002 when Ireland, unlike Britain, joined the euro zone (the countries that share the euro as their currency).

It was this severance package, which shareholders characterized as the epitome of corporate and personal gluttony, that led to the shareholder lawsuit.

Henry Blodget estimates this severance plan alone will cost Microsoft an additional $1 and $3 billion, which pretty much wipes out the $1 billion in savings Microsoft thinks it can get from merging the two companies (i.e., by laying off redundant employees).

The amount Gunderson was to receive from this severance agreement, $400,000, was about equal to his 2010 compensation package.

Following this severance of ties to the state, the group came under increasing criticism and surveillance from the country's security apparatus and propaganda department.

This is because the severance of the optic lobe in this species abolishes the rhythm in swelling and shrinking of L1 and L2 axons [19].

This opener, Severance, was ostensibly about Ken Cosgrove (who had already given the firm an eye thanks to a hunting accident with Chevy executives) being given his jotters.

It was this hurried severance deal – double what Entwistle was contractually entitled to – that sparked the current scandal, after a National Audit Office NAOO) report commission by the trust revealed £2.9m of overpayments to BBC managers over six years.

Mexico's score is a business-killing 72 versus Argentina's 51, Chile's 19 and the U.S.' 3. The cost of letting a worker go in Mexico is equivalent to 83 weeks of the worker's wages; this covers severance pay, fines or penalties to the government and the costs involved in meeting advance-notice requirements.

Colonies were at least 10 m apart to avoid sampling clones, as clones within reefs have been detected in this genus (Severance and Karl 2006; Baums et al., 2010).