Villagers chanted triumphant slogans as bulldozers ploughed away the earth ramparts that the Israelis had made to cut the road to the village.
The Islamists had cut off the road south and the population - in effect held hostage inside the town - was preoccupied with staying out of trouble and hunkering down in their homes to avoid the daily air strikes from the French military against the Islamists positions.
Lambert Mende, Congo's information minister, said the M23 rebels attacked the national army positions first, in an attempt to cut off the main road, north of Goma, which is expected to be used for the planned deployment of the new U.N. brigade.
Lambert Mende, Congo's information minister, said separately that the M23 rebels attacked the national army positions first, in an attempt to cut off the main road, north of Goma, which is expected to be used for the planned deployment of the new U.N. brigade.
The bridge will cut 80 minutes off the road-and-ferry journey from Kobe to Tokushima, one of the bigger towns on the island of Shikoku beyond Awaji, and will be something of a tourist attraction.
Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy explained that the Road Service cut grass for road safety reasons and not for cosmetic reasons.
Transport Secretary Philip Hammond cut the ribbon to officially open the road tunnel, which has taken four and a half years to build.
The capture of Pul-e-Khumri would cut the main north-south road through the centre of Afghanistan, leaving the remaining Taleban forces in the north stranded.
In August, research claiming the upgrading of a road in the central belt cut the number of fatal accidents to zero within a year was flagged up as a reason for improvements to the A9.
Brendan Glynane, Lib Dem opposition leader at the Conservative-run council, said he believed a decision to cut road safety initiatives led to the increase.
For example, in the Dominican Republic, following the proclamation of the Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit of the Congos of Villa Mella, which organises socio-religious ceremonies stemming from African-American culture, threats have disappeared: the plan to build a road that would have cut in half the village of Mata Los Indios, the community's core, has been abandoned, and the confraternity's activities have become more famous than ever (via CD-Rom, participation in events, etc.).
The Highways Agency says dualling the road will cut down on accidents and improve journey times.
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The Pinskys cut behind the Krimbergs' yard, heading to the road east (Raisele does not say, looking for whatever might have been left behind, looking to strip their neighbors' houses of whatever last things someone might have been unable to carry).
In any event, as the rebels advance farther towards Tripoli, the road link to the Algerian border may be cut.
At present, lorries use the city as a short cut from junction 18 of the M4 - along London Road and Cleveland Bridge - en route to the south coast.
He told BBC News it was probably, in part, in recognition of his campaigns on human rights - in the late 1970s he attempted to prevent the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero in El Salvador - and his achievements in helping to cut road deaths as a transport minister in the 1980s.
Carino Vanorden, 24, was at the wheel Wednesday night when a trailer hauling crushed cars broke free of the big rig that was pulling it, cut across a rural, two-lane road and slammed into the minivan, his mother Kate Vanorden of Fayetteville said.
Soldiers also cut road access from Baghdad and the northern cities of Salahuddin and Mosul to Kirkuk on Tuesday.
In writing an opera for young people around the ages of his own two children (who are 6 and 10), Mr. Bruce said he gave the work the same care and attention, if not more, as previous works intended for violinist Daniel Hope ("The Given Note, " a chamber work from 2011) or Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble ("Cut the Rug, " from 2013).
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Resident William Messer said he had raised concerns about the road being used as a cut-through by vehicles.
The main road to the Tasman Peninsula, south-east of Hobart, has been cut off, stranding thousands of people, many of them tourists in the historic site of Port Arthur.
Front lines were drawn, road and railway connections were cut by the fighting, and tourism was dead.
When any big road or rail line is cut through the British countryside there needs to be archaeological investigation to make sure vital sites will not be destroyed.
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But there had been no true words for the act then: rape was what occurred when some maniac jumped on you out of a bush, not when your formal-dance date drove you to a side road in the mangy twice-cut forest surrounding a tin-pot mining town and told you to drink up like a good girl and then took you apart, layer by torn layer.
For 48 hours, the lack of road, phone or mobile phone links left this town of 41, 000 cut off from the rest of the world.
President Yeltsin and I agreed in Helsinki to a road map for the START treaties to cut our nuclear arsenals over the next decade by 80 percent from their Cold War peaks, and actually to destroy the warheads so they can never used for destructive ends.
These ritualists cut off the parts they want and toss the remains on the road.
The Right Reverend Dr John Saxbee has carried out the annual ceremony since 2003 in a bid to cut road crashes.
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