Sentence examples for off the backs from inspiring English sources

Screams for help echoed off the backs of town houses.

"But it shouldn't be made off the backs of farmers, the people who produce our food".

An investment to protect the money generated off the backs and blood and broken bones of student athletes.

"Some of" the cost of catastrophic illness will be taken off the backs of "employers and employees".

"Some of my friends in corporate America say that they need a government that gets off the backs of businesses," Mr. Sinegal said.

The monetary penalties for the firms and investment advisers pale beside the profits they earned off the backs of unsuspecting investors.

"In those days, we were just coming off the backs of the docks being shut down, the factories being shut down.

The U.S. Department of Education is profiting off the backs of service members.

"This country was built and continues to survive off the backs of immigrants and refugees," she continued.

He built a business career, in the words of one of his own campaign staffers, "off the backs of the little guy".

Kids hanging off the backs of A.T.V.s went whizzing by.