cutting-off

• “The word “decision” is chose for the connotations in the root sense of the term (echoed in “incision”, “concision”, “circumcsion”, “precision”), the sense of cutting-off.”

  Notes on Notes

• “In the imagining that we can “get out” what was “put in”, all we are really doing is cutting-off import in the hope that when we have cut enough off we will be left with a hard certainty.”

  Notes on Notes

• “I think he is right to believe that forcing cutting-off of funds will be benefit the Republicans.”

  Boehner Sets Deadline For "Surge's" Success: Two To Three Months

• “I know that's a lie, not supporting the troops is cutting mental health benes, sending them over for a war that started from a lie, but so many of our people are just stupid and all they will see is Read cutting-off fudning.”

  Reid: "We Now Have The Timeline The Republicans Have Set"

• “Very hard indeed to distinguish from the cutting-off kind of silence.”

  Fear: for caregiver, for disabled. And dying.

• “The cutting-off of funds to women's shelters and sexual assault crisis centres.”

  Archive 2008-01-01

• “Whoso be minded to look upon the punishment of such an one, the thief, and the cutting-off of his hand, let him be present to - morrow morning at such a place!”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “JOHN MCCAIN, (R) PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: I am not advocating cutting-off relations with Russia.”

  CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2008

• “Its full-page ad published in The Times in January proclaims: "After two years of sanctions, the cutting-off of fuel supplies, repeated military incursions and the closure of its borders, Gaza is in the grip of a humanitarian crisis.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Funding Israel's Detractors

• “I just wanted to say the Japanese were protesting over and over again about the military bases, about the fleet and about the cutting-off of oil.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Q&A: Nicholson Baker

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