Sentence examples for have worked off from inspiring English sources

Europe will have worked off its debt and become more competitive.

Industrial production has stabilized; that means that companies have worked off the excess inventory that led them to slash production in 2001, but not that demand for their products has increased.

Cheryl Benard, Khalilzad's wife, an Austrian-American who is a senior political analyst at RAND, the research group, where she and her husband have worked off and on for years, told me, "Zal's mother was married to his father at the age of twelve.

Victims who have worked off their "debts" (invented by pimps, arbitrarily increased by "fines" and alleged costs, and fully reinstated, if not increased, with each resale) are permitted to go home on the condition that they send back someone else — or two or three someone elses — to take their place.

If we'd had time we could have worked off our feast, perhaps rafting on the Tara, horse-riding in the hills, or exploring the dramatic Tara canyon - second in depth only to the Grand Canyon - but it was time for the long, winding descent back to the coast.

Skills resumés emphasize marketable skills and can be more useful for people making career changes or for people who have worked off and on for some time.

In spring training, Giambi has worked off the tee with Long almost every day after workouts.

Another serious love interest was the actress Janice Rule, with whom he had worked Off Broadway in the 1950s.

Mr. Benhamou said Palm had worked off much of its excess inventory and was nearing completion of its restructuring.

"We'd never make it if such big waves came," said Hachiro Okumoto, 70, a fisherman who has worked off the Kuroshio coast for half a century.

Now, at 63, he treats about 200 patients each month at Montefiore, where he has worked off and on for 20 years.