Examples of sever

• Moreover, social trends and changes in the organization of professional football have gone some way to severing these sorts of links between football clubs and their localities.

• My noble friend spoke in a moving passage of the severing of political friendships.

• Government here are deliberately severing what might be a very useful link.

• Will the border arrangements be eased, or will the borders lead to a real and tangible division by separating ethnic groups and severing existing relations?

• The first step consists of severing the link between economic growth and the intense use of resources and unwanted effects such as pollution.

• We believe that the planned text was sufficiently clear to avoid severing links.

• Often she severs her business connections and takes on a new kind of life.

• I take it that he means that membership on these terms, in his view, would mean the equivalent of the severing of an artery.