Sentence examples for measures off from inspiring English sources

To that end, he said, the United States is refusing to take any measures off the table, even an embargo of gasoline and other refined fuel.

This is why Mr Brown and his wife, Anne Gust Brown, often described as his consigliere, have been working desperately to keep all rival measures off the ballot.

"We're waiting until we can find a way to take these draconian measures off the table," Chris Larson, one of 14 Democratic senators who left Wisconsin to prevent a vote from taking place, said in a telephone interview.

Never forget, the fact that Republicans in Congress have - to this point - taken these common-sense measures off the table is cause for deep suspicion.

Outgoing Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) on Friday signed off on legislation gutting paid sick leave and minimum wage provisions in the state, the culmination of his party's strategy to keep the popular measures off the ballot last month.

Neat, graceful little waves — as if they'd been measured off with a ruler.

Then Meyers measured off seventy feet, and we took turns shining the laser at each other.

When she got the package, she unwrapped it, and asked him to measure off a yard.

Once the azimuth was calculated, the range was arrived at by measuring off the map.

Parks says, "The core of the story is Lara and her desires and anxieties, which are very much measured off against each other".

Therefore, for subcase (b1), we can measure off (|PP_{2}^|) on (L_{5}) equal to τ.