Sentence examples for off the mainstay from inspiring English sources

Last year, he sold off the mainstay but stagnant analytical chemistry business to EG&G, which then renamed itself PerkinElmer Inc.

The sailboat was sailing from Bermuda to Oxford, Maryland, but was halted after the engine failed, the anchor was ripped off, and the mainstay was torn.

"If you turn off the testing, you have eliminated the mainstay of your program," said Dr. Gary I. Wadler, a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency.

It has also forced political leaders to acknowledge the need to act, rather than to stay quiet because of fears of breaking taboos or scaring off the tourists that are a mainstay of many Caribbean economies.

At the same time the established not-for-profit institutions that have long been the mainstay of the Off Broadway movement have not only survived but thrived in a tough economic environment.

But now the mainstay military vehicles are being sold off by the dozen, with the bidding starting at $7,500.

So it is alarming when America, the mainstay of an open global economy, gives off isolationist signals.

And in a big restructuring of the city's textile industry, once the mainstay of its economy, some 220,000 workers were laid off last year.

Directed by Jim Simpson, "The Vandal" has been expertly cast: in addition to Ms. O'Connell, an Off Broadway mainstay who specializes in tough-hided women with generous hearts, the play stars Zach Grenier (who plays a suavely opportunistic lawyer on "The Good Wife") as the proprietor of a liquor store near the bus stop.

Baycol, once the mainstay of a drugs unit that Bayer is trying to spin off, was withdrawn in August 2001 after dozens of deaths worldwide.

International campaign groups say the authorities are forcing the bushmen off their ancestral lands in order to make way for diamond mining - the mainstay of Botswana's economy.