(1) Jobs at the council have already been slashed through voluntary severance packages.(2) All told, Patterson estimates he paid about $100,000 in severance .(3) she works on the feeling of severance, of being deprived of her mother(4) And another complicating factor could be former City striker Ashley Ward who is still owed a substantial sum by the club following the severance of his contract.(5) If they could be redeployed, they would quit and not worry about severance .(6) And I told my creditors that we needed to give these people 10 days of severance , even though that would deplete the rest of our cash.(7) Going to an extreme, some nationalist academics and intellectuals have called for the severance of diplomatic relations.(8) What we need to do now is move on to discussing severance terms and the timing of the closure.(9) Employees in positions that were now redundant would be offered voluntary severance and there would be no forced redundancies.(10) The anguish of families witnessing the severance of the last land link between the countries speaks volumes about their common history, heritage, and culture.(11) All of our colleagues are being provided with substantial severance payments and separation packages.(12) Letters are to be sent out to certain administrative and general operative staff in the coming days offering them a voluntary severance package.(13) It is understood that the staff have been offered attractive severance terms.(14) Importantly, these patterns of transnational migration have not in fact resulted in the severance of the relationship between culture and territorial belonging.(15) Some have used it as severance for laid-off workers.(16) Terms of Fleming's severance package are still being discussed with her.