Sentence examples for off assault from inspiring English sources

O.K., at least the Grizzlies did not try to afford Gay's contract by raffling off assault rifles to raise money.

The besieged citadel fends off assault after assault, but again and again rescue is delayed.

Using such vehicles, Isis fended off assaults on Sunday in far the western Anbar province by Iraqi forces, backed by fighter jets.

The police – and some brave residents – tried to stave off assaults against some of the men near the park at North Cronulla beach.

He described a city so destitute that payroll checks were bouncing, and frightened children armed themselves with rocks and sticks to fight off assaults on their way to school.

Mr. Obama won Ohio, a key battleground in American presidential politics, and held off assaults by Mr. McCain in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, the top two states that Democrats won in 2004 that Mr. McCain had fought to take back.

Ugly anti-Muslim sentiment that was evident in those first clashes between Buddhists and the Rohingya minority in Rakhine state last June and October has now spread, setting off assaults on Muslim communities in several parts of the country.

Yet rebels attempting to focus on IS have been forced to fend off assaults from all sides.

The message — designed to head off assaults — underlines the unrest swirling around the country as Venezuelans struggle to find food amid acute shortages of price-controlled goods.

Researchers think that exposure to pet dander, as well as what pets carry into the home from outdoors, could bolster babies' still-developing immune systems and train them early to fend off assaults from common allergens and bugs.

The stand-off assault on Syrian military facilities, the first of its kind since the Syrian conflict began in 2011, appeared to be a momentary deviation from the campaign the United States and its Syrian allies are waging to defeat the Islamic State.