Sentence examples for off the administration from inspiring English sources

"They felt you don't want to turn off the Administration when they're taking little steps forward" — by not banning federal funding altogether.

To pull it off, the administration might have used a little more help from allies and a little more of the legitimacy that U.N. endorsement could have conferred.

Baugur had earlier given up trying to stave off the administration with its own petition, in Iceland, requesting protection from its creditors.

To top it off, the administration is still not even sure how to design the building: whether to anchor the bunkerlike structure deep in the mesa or let it "float" up near the surface, its upper part protected by earthen berms.

He was swatted aside and told to get off the administration's case.

An appeals panel of the W.T.O. agreed in a ruling three months ago, setting off the administration's effort to come up with an acceptable alternative.

Mr. Gonzales signed off on the administration's repugnant, and disastrous, torture policy when he was the White House counsel.

In fiscal year 2011, lawmakers shaved $128 million off of the administration's request for embassy security funding.

Mr. McConnell called Mr. Biden back late in the day to deliver the Republican sign-off on the administration's proposed tax breaks for low- and middle-income workers.

But what was clear was that some students had tried to complain and felt brushed off by the administration.

Most reports suggest that these voters have been more turned off by the administration's criticisms of Wall Street and business — however mild and occasional such populist rhetoric has been.