Sentence examples for off the spread from inspiring English sources
What did the city of Philadelphia do to ward off the spread of the virus?
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., tried to ward off the spread of illness — and the sharing of plastic ware — by asking students to stop playing the drinking game beer pong.
In Algeria, Jordan, Morocco, and Oman, rulers offered a variety of concessions, ranging from the dismissal of unpopular officials to constitutional changes, in order to head off the spread of protest movements in their countries.
Dr. Ian Hancock, a professor of Romany Studies at the University of Texas in Austin, says that "evidence points to their having been a multi-ethnic military body assembled to fight off the spread of Islam".
On the roads leading to the tiny island of Anglesey, just off the coast of Wales, men have been laying down mats soaked in disinfectant, to ward off the spread of infection.
Referring to the money it makes off the spread, Western Union said in its 2012 annual filing, "we generate revenues based on the difference between the exchange rate set by us to the customer and the rate at which we or our agents are able to acquire currency".
As a result of the sell-off, the spread in yields between so-called junk bonds and short-term Treasuries has jumped from around five percentage points at the start of the year to nine points.
Early investments in health systems research have also paid-off in terms of the spread of the field across other institutions, although with a greater clinical focus.
One second before liftoff an astronaut gives a sidelong glance, full of suspense, and then... page turn: the rocket blasting off fills the spread (seeming to weigh every bit of its six million pounds).
These little boxes automatically close doors when smoke detectors go off, inhibiting the spread of fire and smoke.
There was some confidence that the quicker measures would help stave off the devastating spread of the disease that happened in 2001, when more than four million animals were slaughtered and many farmers were put out of business.
