Moreover, the diabetic patient who relies on cure by the quack device and therefore cuts off his insulin intake can be committing suicide.

The real reason for his rejection, they argued, is the fact that Georgia law automatically cuts off funds for any desegregated school.

* 2003 – An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500, 000 people living in south east England and brings 60 % of London's underground rail network to a halt.

In such situations, the kidneys release renin, which acts as an enzyme and cuts off all but the first 10 amino acid residues of angiotensinogen ( a protein made in the liver, and which circulates in the blood ).

:: Rule 10. 05 ( a )( 2 ) Comment: The official scorer shall credit a hit if the fielder attempting to handle the ball cannot make a play, even if such fielder deflects the ball from or cuts off another fielder who could have put out a runner.

Now it understands the reason why hunters come after it with such eagerness and impetuosity, and it puts down its head and with its teeth cuts off its testicles and throws them in their path, as a prudent man who, falling into the hands of robbers, sacrifices all that he is carrying, to save his life, and forfeits his possessions by way of ransom.

When the nail has been completely driven, the farrier cuts off the sharp points and uses a clincher ( a form of tongs made especially for this purpose ) or a clinching block with hammer to bend the rest of the nail so it is almost flush with the hoof wall.

Eldol takes his sword, draws Hengist out of the city, and cuts off Hengist's head.

* 1653 – At the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.

This is rather high considering its relatively high altitude of about 1350 metres and is due mainly to its sheltered valley position, which acts as a heat trap and cuts it off from cool southerly and south-easterly air masses for much of the year.

Damage in this area not only destroys local language regions but also cuts off most of the occipital, temporal, and parietal regions from the core language region.

The lens cuts off deep blue and violet light, below 430 nm ( depending on age ), and macular pigment absorbs between 400 and 500 nm, but this pigment is located exclusively in the tiny fovea.

David cuts off a piece of Saul's robe ; yet David restrains himself and his associates from going further, due to a taboo against killing an anointed king ... and also due to the risk of rationalizing Saul's jealousy and paranoia.

The # 1 has always been sought after by shooters who appreciate the compact size of a single shot rifle, and the falling block action cuts about four inches off the length of the rifle for a given barrel length.

The husband, finding her there, beats her, and cuts off her hair.

* February 6 – Cuba cuts off the normal water supply to the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in reprisal for the U. S. seizure 4 days earlier of 4 Cuban fishing boats off the coast of Florida.

* June 23 – In Manassas, Virginia, Lorena Bobbitt cuts off the penis of her husband John Wayne Bobbitt.

* August 25 – The German Foreign Ministry cuts off all telegraph and telephone communication with the outside world in accordance with the plan for Fall Weiss.

* November 17 – The Heidi game: NBC cuts off the final 1: 05 of an Oakland Raiders – New York Jets football game to broadcast the pre-scheduled Heidi.

* December 23 – During a bout of mental illness, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh infamously cuts off the lower part of his own left ear.

The embargo cuts off vital supplies of grain, flour, vegetables and beer, causing a general famine.

Long-term flooding of rice fields cuts the soil off from atmospheric oxygen and causes anaerobic fermentation of organic matter in the soil.

As the tornado enters the dissipating stage, its associated mesocyclone often weakens as well, as the rear flank downdraft cuts off the inflow powering it.

Nevertheless, it may be helpful to cite one example -- that of employment -- for, as will be shown below, it cuts across both facets of the new concept.

Support for it cuts across party, regional, ethnic and other lines.

Make slight, smooth grooves rather than cuts for the texture ( cuts could cause air pockets under the glaze creating pinholes or craters in the glaze during firing ).

It's good for cutting all the planking because it cuts with a bit-like blade at high rpm and does not chatter the plywood like a saber saw.

( C ) Af cuts across C and there are two ordinary intersections for every T in Af.

The problems of color change by blanching and liquid accumulation within the package are the same as for solid cuts.

My lawyer told me that his mother used a similar remedy for cuts and wounds ; ;

The victim, Norman B. Wiley, 38, of the 900 block North Charles Street, was treated for cuts at Franklin Square Hospital after the robbery.

This treaty mandates cuts in deployed strategic nuclear warheads, but without actually mandating cuts to total stockpiled warheads, and without any mechanism for enforcement.

It cut taxes for fifteen million low-income families, made tax cuts available to 90 % of small businesses, and raised taxes on the wealthiest 1. 2 % of taxpayers.

* Sport tape is useful for covering cuts or blisters, as well as providing support for joints that may have been strained.

Charlton suffered cuts to his head and severe shock and was in hospital for a week.

In February 1922, Winston Churchill telegraphed Herbert Samuel asking for cuts in expenditure and noting: In both Houses of Parliament there is growing movement of hostility, against Zionist policy in Palestine, which will be stimulated by recent Northcliffe articles.

1947 proved to be a particularly difficult year for the government ; an exceptionally cold winter that year caused coal mines to freeze and cease production, creating widespread power cuts and food shortages.

In the 1997 federal election, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's Liberals endured a bitter defeat to the PCs and NDP in many ridings as a result of unpopular cuts to unemployment benefits for seasonal workers, as well as closures of several Canadian Forces Bases, the refusal to honour a promise to rescind the Goods and Services Tax, cutbacks to provincial equalization payments, health care, post-secondary education and regional transportation infrastructure such as airports, fishing harbours, seaports, and railways.

Video releases of director's cuts were originally created for the small but dedicated cult fan market.

When it was discovered that the market for alternative versions of films was substantial, the studios themselves began to promote " director's cuts " for a wide array of films, even some where the director already had final cut of the theatrical release.

Such " commercial " director's cuts are seldom considered superior to the original film and in many cases, fans feel the films are diminished by the director's own ego or the studios ' desire for revenue.

While Jackson considers the theatrical releases of those three films to be a final " director's cut " within the constraints of theatrical exhibition, the extended cuts were produced so that fans of the material could see nearly all of the scenes shot for the script to develop more of J. R. R. Tolkien's world, but which were originally cut for running time, or other reasons.