Sentence examples for effort to kill off from inspiring English sources

In an effort to kill off rumours, Mylius was arrested, tried and found guilty of criminal libel, and was sentenced to a year in prison.

Whether the effort to kill off millions of cats will succeed in significantly affecting their distressing impact on native is open to question, given the gargantuan estimates of their numbers and the rapidity with which they reproduce.

Still, despite the LTTE's past efforts to kill off moderate Tamils, the Tamil community is not lacking in political parties or leaders.

Matt Drudge, the dean of right-wing cyberspace, even helped thwart McCain's efforts to kill off a New York Times story suggesting that the presidential hopeful had given "special treatment" - nudge, nudge - to a female lobbyist.

This week in Florida, a Republican primary uprising knocked out Cliff Stearns, a superconservative veteran congressman who had campaigned on his efforts to kill off federal funds for Planned Parenthood and embarrass the Obama administration with an investigation into the Solyndra loans.

Its ongoing efforts to kill off my grandfathered unlimited data plan continue to be thwarted.

Wheeler needs to stop these efforts to kill off the public network and to undermine the FCC's ability to protect consumers.

Such cutting-off-one's-nose-to-spite-one's-face-ism appears to be the sin qua non of modern conservatism, and is of a piece with recent conservative efforts to try to kill off the American Community Survey -- a crucial government data collection that has existed in various manifestations since 1850.

Rich nations have abandoned an attempt to kill off the Kyoto protocol in a last-gasp effort to salvage a deal at the climate change summit in Copenhagen.

Unfortunately, there's now a credible effort in Congress to kill off this little agency.

The despised traffic cops are itching to ticket florists' vans ("like lions around gazelles," says Gary Page), part of a covert effort by successive mayors to kill off the market in favour of developers, most wholesalers believe.