Sentence examples for countryside off from inspiring English sources

The idea was to wean the countryside off its addiction to subsidies by encouraging it to diversify.

It should come in handy, given that the income from the five royal palaces declined in the past year, as the foot-and-mouth disease ravaged livestock and dampened tourism by making much of the countryside off limits.

At the same time, planning a trip last spring, I was worried that I might not be able to walk the Ways at all because of the foot-and-mouth disease in Britain, which had put much of the countryside off limits.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army terrorized the countryside, slicing off lips and hacking away at villagers.

A United States Air Force jet plane has mistakenly dropped an anti-missile device over the British countryside, setting off a hunt for a device that could be dangerous to civilians who may stumble across it.

In Stockton South, large private housing estates like Hartburn or Ingleby Barwick (nicknamed "toy town" by locals) spread out into the countryside; closed off middle class utopias with multi-million pound leisure facilities under construction.

Teasingly, misleadingly called Frank, he travels the countryside, sometimes bringing off a cure.

Bjartur, a sheep farmer, struggles through one disaster after another to survive in the punishing Icelandic countryside and pay off his mortgage.

According to reports in the local press this week, a ghost cat, commissioned by mischievous spirits, has been dispatched to the Kenyan countryside to gnaw off the genitals of men while they sleep.Such reports are quite common.

With so much of the countryside still cut off, it is not surprising that the ETC estimates that bookings of cottages, bed and breakfasts, caravans and the like are down by about 35%.

Because our military controls Iraq, our personnel could roam the countryside freely, cordon off areas and interrogate sources repeatedly, and no one really had to be concerned about exposing his identity as an American.