Sentence examples for umbilical link from inspiring English sources

For decades, it has provided an umbilical link between England and Scotland.

The station has an umbilical link with its predominantly baby boomer audience and they are a discerning, often eccentric, lot.

Translated into English, this means severing the umbilical link between sales growth and employee growth.

But that umbilical link between product and the way it is made is not simple to replicate.

When Britain dropped Amin, his behaviour embarrassing his former sponsor, it was Scotland that provided him with an umbilical link back to the colonial mothership.

This umbilical link between the sectors means Byrne's review of public pay will be meaningless if it has nothing to say about private salary scales.

Others won't want to leave more vulnerable parts of the US due to more umbilical links, to family and jobs and a sense of home.

The new controls are far more stringent than this Government, with its umbilical links to the gun lobby, would ever have countenanced but for the nationwide anger over the massacre of 16 Dunblane children and their teacher in March.

They have made a name for themselves with their good manners, cleanliness, respect for public order (even "Keep off the Grass" signs), restraint and umbilical links to their smartphones.

But just as the Snowden documents have shown the umbilical links between the US and UK intelligence agencies, so it will be impossible for Congress and Obama to discuss and reform the NSA without it impacting on the workings of GCHQ, MI5 and MI6.

Director and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino says his films have an "umbilical cord" link, starting with his 1992 film, Reservoir Dogs.