Sentence examples for off issues from inspiring English sources

He knows first-hand the Legislature's knack for sliding off issues by enacting hollow reforms.

"She's ticking off issues that are important to me as a mother and a public official," said Nancy Burton, 48, the city comptroller.

He ticked off issues that loomed large in the State Capitol a decade ago — school finance, transportation, water — and noted that all remained major challenges with high price tags in this session.

In what might, in any other presidential election, have been the kind of remarks that a winner delivered the morning after an enormous victory jubilee, Mr. Bush even ticked off issues that he wanted a Bush presidency to address.

Reeling off issues that he felt had unduly dominated 2016 discussion, he said: "I don't care about transvestites, I don't care about all kinds of people's little pet peeves.

Others -- including State Senator Olga A. Mendez of Manhattan and the Bronx, Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio of Queens, a labor official and a police detective -- tick off issues like job creation, investments in education, and crimefighting.

The government put off issuing more bonds on international markets as its borrowing rate tripled last week.

To avoid giving ammunition to Republicans opposed to the project, the administration put off issuing several major rules until after last November's elections.

Also feeding the panic: Williams has held off issuing its 2001 statements pending the restructuring talks of Williams Communications and the telecom's creditors.

Climate change is no longer some far off issue.

Seven neighboring cities have evacuated, but Corpus Christi has so far held off, issuing only a voluntary evacuation order.