Sentence examples for organizations off from inspiring English sources

His words, which harked back to Soviet times, caught human rights advocates and other civic organizations off guard and seemed to provide a rationale for future restrictions on their activities.

Until this point, the conflict had been mostly a one-sided affair, with Fox News hosts promoting tax day "tea parties" that focused protest on the new president, and more recently bringing down the presidential adviser Van Jones through rugged coverage that caught the administration, and other news organizations, off guard.

[C3.] Federal Rules on Political Ads Begin New federal rules intended to curb political attack ads go into effect in Iowa today, yet many campaign strategists and election lawyers say that it will hardly keep special interest organizations off the air.

While supporters are convinced that the law will work, many campaign strategists and election lawyers say that the ban will not keep special interest organizations off the air and that it may, in fact, make those groups more influential than before, because some can collect soft money while the parties cannot.

A new mobile chat application targeting college students, Quad, is working to move student organizations off of email and onto smartphones for managing their group communications.

The White House reportedly ended up leaving some of the liberal Jewish organizations off the invitation list. .

So far e-cookie has set the organization off on a course of research — how to incorporate "the skills," protect the girls' privacy, manage the revenue — but no concrete plans are in place.

Sometimes cooperation between arts organizations pays off in unexpected ways.

"Once a number of key conservative organizations signed off on it and we decided to go to work, overnight we unleashed a monster," said L. Brent Bozell III, chairman of ForAmerica, a Tea Party group that has been pushing a "Defund Obamacare" message.

In 2005, after watching other organizations fend off lawsuits, the Lichtenstein foundation bought $5 million worth of liability insurance and made its authentication process more rigorous and transparent, its executive director, Jack Cowart, said.

Most news organizations stayed off the John Edwards love child story when The National Enquirer broke the news in October 2007, but the dam broke over the course of many months as the drip-drip of evidence and consequences began to accumulate.