Sentence examples similar to off the charters from inspiring English sources

The only person to spend time in the island's police station cells so far this year was thrown off one of the charter flights for drunkenness.Ascension Island turns on its head the old sailors' folklore about islands that move from place to place.

- (DA) The Danish Liberal Party' s five Members of the European Parliament, Bertel Haarder, Anne E. Jensen, Ole Andreasen and Niels Busk have today voted against paragraph 14a of the report, since they wish to keep the issue of the Charter off the agenda of the Intergovernmental Conference.

Most of the charter class came off the flagship's wait list.

With some fresh initiative, the nonprofit fire museum commission kicks off the charter membership fund drive next Saturday at the annual Lakehurst fire engine muster in Ocean County.

SANDWICH, England — Steve Stricker, fresh off the charter plane after winning his third straight John Deere Classic in the United States, was squinting in the English sunshine outside the clubhouse at Royal St . Georges and considering who might win this year's British Open.

Hacked Off worked hard to bring Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband together on the charter's wording.

In 1278 he was accused of cutting off the seal of a charter from Quarr Abbey, thereby invalidating its authenticity.

Despite this practice of charters' "creaming off" the better test-takers and rejecting the rest, a Stanford University study last year showed that 19/31 percent of children in charters still get lower scores in reading and math than those in public schools; 56/40 percent receive roughly the same scores; and only 25/29 percent achieve higher scores.

He wrote to Wentworth: "Blessed be God for it who hath preserved me now from shipwreck, hunger, scurvy and pestilence... ...... His health declining, Baltimore's persistence over the charter finally paid off in 1632.

Is it, as Yogi Berra would say, "Déjà vu all over again?" When I hear the president, Secretary Duncan, Mayor Bloomberg and other "reformers" spout off about charters and evaluating "ineffective" teachers, I have visions of these sons and daughters of the failed "reformers" of yesteryear planting new seeds for American academic failure in the years to come.

Saltman saw Duncan as a militant privatizer, labelling schools in black communities as failures to justify opening new charters that could skim off the highest-achieving students, thereby widening the gap between winners and losers.