split off


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w>split off

vt sepabtrennen (prep obj von); (with axe also) → abspalten (prep obj von); (= break)abbrechen (prep obj von)
viabbrechen; (rock also)sich lösen; (fig)sich trennen (from von)
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The frost and the tempests of unnumbered ages had battered and hacked at these cliffs, with a deathless energy, destroying them piecemeal; so all the region about their bases was a tumbled chaos of great fragments which had been split off and hurled to the ground.
Much split off, and fell about on the shore, and the rest they swiftly put into a house with thick walls.
The firm said that it will split off its UK operations as Wolseley UK following a lengthy strategic review of the group.
While Tsai stopped over in Los Angeles at the start of her August 12-20 visits to two official diplomatic allies in the Americas, Chen split off from the delegation and toured the U.S.
The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania split off, as did Ukraine, which led to the modern confusion in today's eastern Ukraine and is a powder keg for peace in Europe.
A group of lobbyists has split off from global law firm Dentons to start its own Jefferson City-based lobbying firm, Nexus Group.
Sky (SKYAY) CEO Jeremy Darroch said the loss of Sky News would not be material to the broadcaster, hinting that the channel is prepared to split off or insulate the news unit to secure approval for its $16.7B acquisition by 21st Century Fox (FOX, FOXA), Bloomberg reports, citing Darroch's comments on a conference call.
in fact is descended from the same cells in the embryo that split off to
As of the date hereof, FNF owns approximately 8% of the outstanding shares of Cannae common stock and will dispose of such shares as soon as a disposition is warranted consistent with the business reasons for the ownership of such shares, but in no event later than five years from the closing of the Split Off of Cannae from FNF.
Indeed, some scholars believe these three chapters were originally part of Sanhedrin, only to be split off at some point in the Talmud's history.
A Welsh Labour party could have real influence in negotiations with the UK party, which would become a de facto English party if the seven Scottish Labour MPs also split off.
A reform report has suggested that Norway's USD960bn wealth fund, considered to be the world's largest, should be split off from the country's central bank.