But it looks as though big chunks of the continent must be cut adrift, or the whole of it will sink.

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Then, in some trick of the light, or because she sagged her chin into her wrinkling neck, or her too short trousers rode up above her ankle socks as she was sitting cross-legged, Ally saw for a moment the old woman she would become, vulnerable and stubborn, cut adrift.

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Mr Obama must make clear that he will not cut them adrift and will not tolerate attempts to destabilise their governments.

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