Sentence examples for raid off from inspiring English sources

SAMUEL C. JOHNSON $3.6 billion Age: 71 Privately held S.C. Johnson & Son keeps homes clean and bug-free: Windex, Pledge, Raid, Off! Fourth-generation family business, but active as ever.

Crew members of the Maersk Alabama, which suffered the raid off the coast of lawless Somalia in April 2009, told the New York Post the titular hero played by Tom Hanks in Paul Greengrass's critically acclaimed film was far from heroic.

Wing Andrew Trimble caused mayhem in the Welsh defence with a side-stepping raid off his wing, before Rob Kearney just managed to wrestle the ball from Halfpenny following a steepling up-and-under by Sexton.

The destroyers Csepel and Balaton were to mount a diversionary raid off the Albanian coast in order to confuse any Allied counter-attack.

The raid set off the alarm at the nearby jewellers Tiffany & Co, although it is not believed any goods were stolen from that store.

But the raid set off a firestorm among the Sunni Muslims who have been Saddam Hussein's strongest supporters and the fount of the insurgency.

The elite police squad (RAID) blew off the apartment's shutters with sporadic blasts during the night and early morning in a tactical attempt to get Merah to surrender.

(Reuters) THE AMERICAS MEXICO: POLICE RAID SETS OFF RIOT The police occupied a downtown Mexico City neighborhood known as a thieves' den after a raid on suspected smugglers led to hours of riots.