Sentence examples for platforms off from inspiring English sources

And George Bush said that Iraq could attack the United States with chemical and biological weapons using "UAVs" ("unmanned aerial vehicles") launched from "platforms" off our shore.

Of the 27 oil platforms off the California coast, 19 are in the Santa Barbara Channel and most are expected to close within 15 years.

I have been to several offshore oil platforms over the years in the North Sea off Britain, as well as on platforms off Brunei, in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Norwegian Sea.

Moreover, the government wants to reduce Norway's carbon dioxide footprint by eliminating the gas-burning generators that produce electricity for the oil and gas drilling platforms off Norway's shore, supplying them instead with electricity from the mainland.

With much of North America's low-hanging energy fruit already culled, mining existing oil sand deposits is now less expensive than searching for new oil fields and pumping it from deep-water platforms off the coasts of Newfoundland or Louisiana.

— from being one of the loudest opponents of Bush's demand for more oil platforms off America's most beautiful coastlines to being its loudest advocate, Democrats have been slamming him for it.

Female shoes were dizzying platforms, curtained off by white nylon trousers, often with logos across the bum.

In the 1630 etching "Christ Disputing With the Doctors," he stages the drama on a theatrical platform set off by curved steps.

But the Facebook platform took off.

will locating production platforms to off-shoring countries still be the right thing to do economically?

"If this platform takes off, these guys [ELectronics Boutique] will be laughing all the way to the bank," says Lin.