Sentence examples for holiday off from inspiring English sources

Not New Sue and Beverly are still giving me the silent treatment 'cause I can't let them take the bank holiday off, but it's water off a duck's back by this point.

Nearby, Idris, 35, an immigrant from Ghana who declined to give his last name, said he could not take the holiday off because he is paid on commission for selling tour bus packages to passers-by.

Just outside the Nasdaq ceremony, Jordan Ramos, 19, on a cigarette break in Times Square, said that he would not get the holiday off from his media services job, and that Dr. King loomed larger for his Puerto Rican grandmother, who had lived through the civil rights struggle.

Despite road barriers and armed troopers sealing off all but a few main gates, a near pastoral calm surrounded the 160,000-acre fort as many of the 40,000 members of elite military units took the holiday off, one last taste of home for some of them.

Many U.S. Hindus don't take the holiday off, even the key day, which falls on Wednesday (Oct . 26 this year.

For example, " Do you have the holiday off?

It sometimes seems that the only people that do get bank holidays off are the people who work in banks.

"I switched to the corporate world so I could have regular hours, weekends and holidays off," she said.

And if the two week break doesn't happen to coincide with Easter or other public holidays then you simply take the bank holidays off and then continue the term.

Only those with contracts that stipulate they can have all bank and public holidays off, on top of their annual leave, are legally entitled to stay at home.

Apart from a few days off last year to look after my mother when my father died, I've only ever taken my holidays off and I've been with the firm for nearly 15 years.