Cut-short Sentence Examples

But his hopes of further conquest were cut short by his death.

One negotiation of supreme importance was cut short for this reason.

Pisa and Perugia were threatened with extinction, and Florence dreaded the advance of the Visconti arms, when the plague suddenly cut short his career of treachery and conquest in the year 1402.

A visit to southern Italy, where many of the princes did homage to the emperor, was cut short by the death of the pope, to whose chair Otto then appointed his former tutor Gerbert, who took the name of Sylvester II.

Grindal indeed attempted a reform of the ecclesiastical courts, but his metropolitical activity was cut short by a conflict with the arbitrary temper of the queen.

His attempts to crush all such disturbers of the peace were cut short by his death in his second year of office.

But these plans were cut short by a fever which carried him off just at the time when Charles VIII.

Ventral view of a female with the appendages cut short near the base.

Ventral view with the prosomatic appendages cut short excepting the chelicerae (I) whose sharp retroverts are seen.

I to VI, The six pairs of appendages of the prosoma, the last three cut short.

But his training for a military career was suddenly cut short by the refusal of his elder brother, Alphonse, to accept the office of bishop of Luton.

All Gerbert's dreams for the advancement of church and empire were cut short by the death of Otto III., on the 4th of February 1002; and this event was followed a year later by the death of the pope himself, which took place on the r 2th of May 1003.

His illness did not, however, prevent his seeing and recording everything of interest in Medina with the same care as at Mecca, though it compelled him to cut short the further journey he had proposed to himself, and to return by Yambu and the sea to Cairo, where he died only two years later.

The early death of this talented mathematician, of whom Legendre said "quelle tete celle du jeune Norvegien!", cut short a career of extraordinary brilliance and promise.

But his career there was in 1832 suddenly cut short by difficulties growing out of the " regium donum," which had on the death of the senior minister fallen to him.

But his successes in the west were cut short by the defeat of Cheriton or Alresford in March 1644.

In 370 Amyntas died, and the troubled reign of Philip's eldest brother, Alexander II., was cut short in 368 by his assassination.

But his alleged attempts to bribe the oracles were fruitless, and his schemes were cut short by the outbreak of war with Thebes in 395.

A thin moustache is common, the beard, if present, is plucked out, and the hair of the head is black, coarse and cut short.

The liberum veto seems to have been originally devised to cut short interminable debates in times of acute crisis, but it was generally used either by highly placed criminals, anxious to avoid an inquiry into their misdeeds,' or by malcontents, desirous of embarrassing the executive.

It is a full vestment of the type of the Western bell chasuble; but, instead of being cut away at the sides, it is for convenience' sake either gathered up or cut short in front.

In 1885 Professor Heinrich Thorbeckebegan an edition of the text based on the Berlin codex, but only the first fasciculus, containing forty-two poems, had appeared when his work was cut short by death.

Unfortunately, on the 1st of May, an attack of apoplexy cut short the life of this pope, who seemed peculiarly adapted for the reformation of the Church.

His elder brother, Edward Stanley Poole (1830-1867), who was chief clerk in the science and art department at South Kensington, was an Arabic scholar, whose early death cut short a promising career.

His death, at the early age of forty-four, cut short a career which had given promise of still greater things, for he had real statesmanship in his conceptions of the future of his country, and he had an eloquence which would have been potent in the education of his supporters.

It was made after Bismarck had retired from office, and he, as did the colonial party, severely criticized the details; for the surrender of Zanzibar and Witu cut short the hopes which had been formed of building up a great German empire controlling the whole of East Africa.

In his life he was orderly and retiring, averse from taking decisions, though not incapable of acting firmly, as when he cut short the dangerous intrigues of his able minister Ensenada by dismissing and imprisoning him.

Turkey's shattered fleets were soon restored, and Sokolli was preparing for a fresh attack on Venice, when the sultan's death on the 12th of December 1574 cut short his plans.

But his work was cut short by his death in 440; the hope of the Sicel people now lay in assimilation to their Hellenic neighbours.

A new scheme of Sicilian union was taken up by Deinocrates, which cut short his dominion.

And Hellas was cut short by the seizure of Messana by the disbanded Campanian mercenaries of Agathocles (c. 282), who proclaimed themselves a new people in a new city by the name of Mamertines, children of Mamers or Mars.

Coincidently with the persistence of the tonic contraction, the higher and volitional centres seem to lie under a spell of inhibition; their action, which would complete or cut short the posture-spasm, rests in abeyance.

He actually sent an envoy to collect information in the East; but his plans were cut short by death.

The men's hair is cut short but their beards are allowed to grow.

In 1715 and 1716 he had a discussion with Leibnitz relative to the principles of natural philosophy and religion, which was at length cut short by the death of his antagonist.

His university career, first at Ingolstadt (1585-1586), then at Altdorf near Nuremberg (1597-1598), was cut short by his poverty, from which he suffered all his life, and which was the main cause of his wanderings.

The king's bodily weakness limited his real capacity, and his early death on the 25th of December 1406 cut short the promise of his reign.

Baidus reign was cut short in the same year by Arghuns son Ghazan Mahmud, whose reign (1295-1304) was a period of prosperity in war and administration.

But this project was cut short by the illness and death of the king (323).

It would be difficult to exaggerate the loss which logic and political economy sustained through the accident by which his life was prematurely cut short.

His marriage with Placidia, the daughter of the great Theodosius, was taken as the seal of the union between Goth and Roman, and, had their son Theodosius lived, a dynasty might have arisen uniting both claims. But the career of Ataulphus was cut short at Barcelona in 415, by his murder at the hands of another faction of the Goths.

On attaining his majority in 1262, Alexander declared his intention of resuming the projects on the Western Isles which had been cut short by the death of his father thirteen years before.

But in 1399 Visconti recommenced his wars of conquest, which were to have included Padua had not death cut short his schemes in 1402.

His hopes of distinction were, however, cut short by a decree of the Polish diet, which, in order to vex the king, refused to sanction the continuance of the war.

How many more such honours he might have attained it is impossible to say; but he was expected to win both the gold medals at the degree examination, had his career as a student not been cut short by an unprecedented event.

The unfinished poems, Dieu and La Fin de Satan, are full to overflowing of such magnificent work, such wise simplicity of noble thought, such heroic and pathetic imagination, such reverent and daring faith, as no other poet has ever cast into deathless words and set to deathless music. Les Jumeaux, an unfinished tragedy, would possibly have been the very greatest of his works if it had been completed on the same scale and on the same lines as it was begun and carried forward to the point at which it was cut short for ever.

His residence at Bourges was cut short by the death of his father in May 1531.

Her last journey of inspection was cut short at Alva, where she died on the 29th of September 1582.

Wicklow, but Irish sources state that after a brief sojourn there he proceeded to the land of the Picts, among whom he was beginning to labour when his career was cut short by death.

The parlement cut short these bargainings by condemning all ultramontane pretensions and Spanish intrigues.

Despite the birth of a dauphin (September 1729), which cut short the Spanish intrigues, the reconciliation was a lasting one (treaty of Seville); it led to common action in Italy, and to the installation of Spanish royalties at Parma, Piacenza, and soon after at Naples.

No suggestion of the possibility of his death was tolerated, of a crime which might cut short his career.

Mr Chamberlain's own activity in the political field was cut short in the middle of the session of 1906 by a serious attack of gout, which was at first minimized by his friends, but which, it was gradually discovered, had completely crippled him.

Canovas resumed office in March 1895 immediately after the outbreak of the Cuban insurrection, and devoted most of his time and efforts, with characteristic determination, to the preparation of ways and means for sending 200,000 men to the West Indies to carry out his stern and unflinching policy of no surrender, no concessions and no reforms. He was making up his mind for another effort to enable General Weyler to enforce the reforms that had been wrung from the Madrid government, more by American diplomacy than from a sense of the inevitable, when the bullet of an anarchist, in August 1897, at the baths of Santa Agueda, cut short his career.

Sadly however, our experience is cut short by a curfew, tho the band is quite amiable about it.

Orders the English courtiers to have theirs cut short too, to show sympathy, but grows his own long again quite soon.

The 1998 canal tour was cut short due to the tragic death of John Fleming.

Avoid scratching affected areas, and keep fingernails clean and cut short.

The trip was cut short by the death of a close kinsman.

The march was cut short and needed a huge police phalanx to get it through the eerily deserted streets of Lewisham.

It cut short that dull plod with a slogan ­ ' Propaganda by deed ' .

Although parents usually follow a bedtime ritual with their young children, it, too, is often cut short or rushed.

You get back is sort of to Hawaii cruise cut short after 300 become ill sit in.

A conspiracy among his own freedmen - set on foot, it is said, by his wife Domitia Longina, who knew her own life to be threatened - cut short his career.

Incomplete as was his career - he was not quite thirty-two - his life was cut short in a crescendo of all its nobler elements.

Beneath the anterior parts of the radula where it emerges from the caecum are a pair of cartilages, and attached to these a number of special muscles by which the radula is moved backwards and forwards to act as a rasp. The secretion of the radula at the closed end of the caecum is continuous, so that it is constantly growing forward as fast as its exposed anterior portion is worn away by use, just as a fingernail is pushed forward by constant growth at its posterior end, and is worn away or has to be cut short from time to time at its outer end.

His acting school career was cut short when he won the role of Danny Byrne on the Irish series Ballykissangel.

Their secret rendezvous was cut short as the two were involved in a minor traffic accident later that evening.

Esteban's early career was cut short by an accident that left him with nerve damage to his left hand and an eye that was overly sensitive to the light.

The coat, worn as part of standard daily wear, was cut short at the waist and longer at the back.

Probably the most popular current style hearkens back to dancers' warm-up sweaters, which are cut short and tie in the front.

Children who are itchy should have their finger nails cut short to help ensure that they do not scratch the itchy area enough to create breaks in the skin.

Infected nails should be cut short and straight and carefully cleared of dead cells with an emery board.

Because scratching can cause blisters to become infected and lead to scarring, the child's nails should be cut short.

The movie, based upon footage for his upcoming London concert set that was cut short by his untimely death, shows a man in his 50s dancing as if he were still in his 20s.

Thick wavy hair cut short without layers can give you triangle-head.

The hair is "tricked" into looking thick when it's cut short.

Nothing can cut short a day of swim fun faster than a nasty cut on your feet.

The triangle top ties in the back and the boy cut short bottom is beyond cute.

Their love story was cut short when Jackson left the show to pursue his career, including a starring role in the film Tuck Everlasting.

Unfortunately, Phillip's life was cut short when he was believed to have died in a drunk driving accident, leaving behind a son he never knew and a grieving family.

By 1980 Joy Division had achieved national acclaim, though their time under the spotlight was cut short by the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis on May 18th of that year.

Although the battery life has improved with music and pictures, it is cut short with video play.

The series made a strong television debut but was cut short due to sluggish ratings.

Captain Kirk, Spock and McCoy's vacation is cut short when a Vulcan hijacks the Enterprise to take it on a journey to discover the mysteries of the universe.

Monk cut short these deliberations and forced on the Restoration without condition.