Sentence examples for off the scramble from inspiring English sources

8 Now Backstrom bobbles a puck at Semin's feet, and that results in an extra Russian shot off the scramble.

Ms. Pelosi touched off the scramble on Friday when she said she intended to run for minority leader despite Democrats' loss of at least 60 House seats.

But they did, Eastham setting off the scramble which led to Conway's opener, then poking home the winner himself with 17 minutes to go.

The broader debate has been spurred by the abuse of parliamentary expenses that set off the scrambling within Labor to dump Mr. Brown.

Her fellow Russian Pavlyuchenkova dropped the first set against Venus Williams, a week after beating her in Tokyo, but she won the second and held off the scrambling American in the third.

Thoroughly impressed with how the 6-foot-11 O'Neal avoided forcing the issue and calmly passed out of the double-team, helping Reggie Miller & Company make just enough shots to hold off the scrambling Nets, were MacCulloch, the Nets' center, and Willis Reed, the Nets' senior vice president who, once upon a time, played a little big man's basketball himself.

But in New York City, where the cameras never click off and the scramble to stand before them never ends, few people know the name, much less the face, of their long-serving chief medical examiner.

THE Bush administration's budget proposal for 2005 has set off the perennial scramble among government agencies and federal programs to dodge financial cuts.

It was the protest resignation last month of the party's leader, David Trimble, as the assembly's first minister that set off the current scramble to break the arms impasse.

Jonathan Quick was, as usual, steady, holding off the few scrambles that did erupt in front of his net late in the game when the Devils found that last bit of energy.

Toure played a delightful pass behind Coleman, and Negredo slipped the ball home via a big deflection off the scrambling Howard.