Sentence examples for off from trying from inspiring English sources
Marnie broke off from trying to reverse her curse on Eric for just long enough to flay the skin from Pam's face and cause her to start decaying.
THIS week, Tony Blair took a couple of days off from trying to disarm Saddam Hussein, and spent 30 hours holed up in Northern Ireland's Hillsborough Castle looking for a way to persuade the IRA to give up its weapons.
Colin Hines (Letters, 28 January) will be there, as will the Guardian's Larry Elliott - if he can find time to break off from trying to solve the world recession!
Ms. Bartz has been holding off from trying to sell Yahoo's investments in Asia - especially Alibaba - because, it is said, she and others on the board think there will be more value when some of Alibaba's most profitable parts, Taobao and Alipay, go public.
"It wasn't like I needed to go out there and try to find the furthest part from Hermione so I could get away from her," she told GQ magazine recently, "because that seems like a negative place to jump off from; trying to get away from something rather than trying to get towards something.
That clearly doesn't scare Groupon off from trying to meet merchant needs because being the ecosystem for local business requires massive scale and providing massive value.
By offering its own free alternative to Microsoft Office, Mr. Varian said, Sun might discourage any new Microsoft spin-off from trying to compete in the Linux market.
Even without that groundwork, my sense is that there was a window for additional action in the fall of 2009, and that the administration sheered off from even trying.
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This policy instrument does not explicitly acknowledge potential trade-offs that might emerge from trying to reach two different policy objectives.
For its part, North Korea, increasingly cut off from Russia and China, tried to replicate Pakistan's success in developing nuclear weapons based on uranium, one of the few commodities that North Korea has in plentiful supply.
