Sentence examples for off the armed from inspiring English sources

The perception -- and reality -- of rigged state elections in 1987 helped set off the armed insurgency that began in 1989.

After the government made Mr. Ocalan, the sole political authority of the P.K.K., a party to the talks, he communicated with his rebels from a fortresslike prison on an island in western Turkey in March, calling off the armed struggle.

President-elect Vicente Fox Quesada, who takes office on Dec. 1, has promised to withdraw the military from the drug war after a decade in which the drug barons bought off the armed forces as much as the military fought the traffickers.

But, Mr. Abbas has said that he does not believe that Mr. Sharon is serious about a peace deal and that his unwillingness to negotiate would be clear if the Palestinians called off the armed struggle and pressed for a resumption of peace talks.

Hence the tearing-off-the-arm eagerness to seize the opportunity.

The seven basic beds, or frames, are flatbed, raised-bed, post, cylinder, off-the-arm, closed-vertical, and open-vertical.

Barber passed Coleman, then shrugged off the arms of linebacker Jay Foreman.

"Now they are selling off the arms and legs.

I'm not falling off the arm of a man.

Unilaterally, no one is willing to call off the arms race".

"Cutting off the arm doesn't mean to say you've solved it.