1.   Britain immediately severed relations with the three countries involved.

2.   The Arabs had severed relations with Salomon when it had merged with the commodity traders Phillips Brothers.

3.   Already, the government has imposed an austerity package that won the backing of the International Monetary Fund, which had severed relations with the former Romanian government.

4.   At least five other health care providers have recently publicly announced plans to sever relations with specific managed care companies.

5.   Benetton licensees there have obliterated the franchise name from their shops and sued to sever relations with the parent company.

6.   Bosnian Serb political leaders stopped short of threatening to sever relations with the NATO force that is deployed here.

7.   A look at the development and a discussion of what happens when nations sever relations.

8.   Caribbean governments are also severing relations with international appeals bodies that officials say are used by death row inmates to stall their fates for years.

9.   Despite direct orders to sever his relations with Montenegro, he took his friend with him to be a top drug intelligence officer when he moved to Mexico City.

10.   He said the CIA would fully report human-rights abuses by its paid informants, and sever relations with such sources if necessary.