Sentence examples for off the cables from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bauer was trying to seal off the cables that took power to the destroyed substations so that Con Ed could resume sending electricity to the seaport substation.

The workers cut the frayed ends off the cables and clamped them together, leaving the section of cable looking as segmented as a finger and not terribly reliable.

Per Steve, we are dropping off the cables for internal distribution and review with Shawn Baxter (SES) and propose that we meet with the team of various reviewers at 530 pm tomorrow Weds in my office in 6800 to go over what we want to present back to WaPo's editors.

CourtTV.com, an online spin-off of the cable TV network, has acquired two crime- oriented Web sites -- thesmokinggun.com and crimelibrary.com -- for an undisclosed sum.

It plans to spin off the cable unit as an independent company some time in 2002.

Before Wasserstein's report was ready, Icahn had moved far beyond his original proposal to spin off the cable division.

But when Walsh tried to tape the Big West final on Saturday night, he accidentally turned off the cable on the television.

Before I could stop him, he'd torn off the cable's gripper, and the person he became upset with was me.

Here's our original posting on the matter, from this morning: Just as the buzz from his latest blockbuster book had started to fade, Bob Woodward, The Washington Post journalist and author, found another way to set off the cable news chatter.

C1 AT&T Holding On to Cable Unit AT&T's board rejected Comcast's unsolicited bid to acquire AT&T's cable operation, but the board also delayed its own plan to spin off the cable unit as an independent company.

In selling off the cable network, it insisted on breaking up the nationwide system into nine regions, with the clear intention of preventing rivals from creating a nationwide competitor.