Sentence examples for continental off from inspiring English sources

Number one domestic carrier United Airlines is down 13.6% for the year through Aug. 28, and the news is equally grim for American Airlines, which is down 15.1%; Continental, off 14.8%; Delta Air Lines, off 20.7%; Southwest, off 18.6%; Northwest Airlines, off 28.4%; and sputtering US Airways, down almost 67%.

Continental fought off Pirelli and they went their separate ways.

Banks and plains are important geomorphic elements on the continental shelf off LVT.

If Oman had managed to draw in Jordan in the final game on the road to Brazil, they would have entered the continental play-off for the chance to do battle with Uruguay.

In 1990, three months before the effort to raise fuel-efficiency standards failed on Capitol Hill, President Bush issued an executive order making large swaths of the continental shelf off-limits to new exploration.

The continental sell-off took Asia's lead on Monday, after Japan's Nikkei index closed at a 26-year low of 7,162.90 points.

The distribution of CWRs along the European margins has now been well documented [11], and several coral hotspots are found along the continental margin off Ireland, off Norway, and in the Mediterranean basin.

Also, I am among the British, eating lunch (roast beef, in fact) at the George Hotel near that stone fort Henry VIII built five centuries ago to ward off continental impertinence.

Wall Street was also weaker while continental bourses sold off sharply after Friday's record $2tn of losses on global stock markets.

Along the eastern side of the basin, the continental shelf falls off sharply near the Philippine islands of Luzon and Palawan and forms the Palawan Trough near the latter island.

Chevron has 100 prospective drilling spots in the Gulf of Mexico, but its highest hopes for a resumption of deepwater drilling lay in an area called the Lower Tertiary Wilcox trend, near where the continental shelf drops off into deep water.