Sentence examples for off the shipment from inspiring English sources

China temporarily cut off the shipment of rare earth metals used in Japanese high-tech products and suspended many bilateral exchanges.

In addition, he was known to claim that his very presence as a squadron commander in Puerto Rico during the Cuban missile crisis persuaded Soviet military leaders to call off the shipment of nuclear missiles to Cuba.

Please don't let the social-studies tag "identity-politics" put you off; "The Shipment," performed by a diversely talented cast of five black actors, will bore or offend only the humorless.

He plans to haul Kenya's defence minister, Yusuf Haji, before his committee, along with the previous one, Njenga Karume, who may have signed off on the shipment.

The news that Chancellor Angela Merkel and Germany's security council had signed off on the shipment of state-of-the-art tanks to the Middle East after the Saudis helped suppress the uprising in Bahrain led to an uproar this week and to the failed attempt by left-wing parties to scuttle arms shipments through legislation in the Bundestag.

Mr. Kim's endorsement, however reluctant, appeared to have been critical in the support of the American demand to cut off the shipments.

After Leopold's death in 1895, Rudolf carried on the endeavor into the 1930s, sending off the last shipment to Massachusetts in 1936.

The immediate concerns for the Bank includes anchor damage, prop blast, and abrasion by large oil tankers maneuvering off the petroleum trans-shipment facilities on St. Eustatius, petroleum spillage and subsequent use of dispersants, possible overfishing for certain species, and exploration for petroleum reserves (so far unsuccessful).

Producers can stabilize the oil by burning off the gasses prior to shipment, but they aren't required by law to do so, and the precaution cuts into profits by reducing the volume of the oil.

Another factor is the pickup point, and where you drop the car off for shipment home.

(Before the shipment was sent off, he received a blanket and a sweater).