Clients wanted the ability to cut off the project if funding changed.

在资金发生变化时客户想要终止项目。

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What keeps us from being cut off from our fellows is our ability to communicate with each other.

将我们与他人隔断的原因正是我们自己的交往能力。

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Interrupter circuit breaker has a strong ability to both cut off the load current, but also cut off the short-circuit current.

断路器具有很强的灭弧能力，既能切断负荷电流，也能切断短路电流。

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Instead of the usual VC tactic of making Shader an offer with a tight deadline, which would cut off his ability to shop his idea to other investors, Hornik tells him he should take all the time he needs.

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The first thing we have to do is cut off special interests' ability to influence campaigns with their money, and increase the power of regular people.

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Musharraf said Pakistan, which is under U.S. economic sanctions that were imposed after its nuclear testing in 1998, must face a choice between joining the international community -- thereby gaining the ability to influence decisions on the use of force against Afghanistan -- or being cut off.

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