Sentence examples for ruler off from inspiring English sources

Slowly inch the ruler off of the desk (or the surface with a sharp edge).

When you finish your line take the ruler off the paper, and check out your line!

PAGE A10 CHINA SMOTHERS REFORM A charter calling for reforms has unnerved China's rulers, setting off a wave of repression against democracy advocates.

When rulers marry off their daughters to forge alliances between kingdoms and to prevent war, it's called realpolitik.

CAIRO — Saudi Arabia closed its embassy here on Saturday and recalled its ambassador, setting off a diplomatic crisis that seemed to catch Egypt's military rulers off guard and left them struggling to repair a rift with a financial benefactor and a long-time ally.

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One of the main practices in Suleiman the Magnificent's family's approach to succession management in the Ottoman Empire for over six hundred years was for the new ruler to kill off all his brothers to head off any possible succession disputes.

Tony Paley 2.05pm: Frankie Dettori wins the first race of the new season at Newmarket on Sopranist, beating the first big "talking horse" of the new Flat turf campaign in Native Ruler who went off odds-on on his first ever appearance on a racecourse.

Using the pencil and ruler, mark off where each hook screw will go along the top, sides and possibly the bottom of the hanger.

Arichis and his son Grimoald III (787 806) were powerful rulers who held off the Franks, even if Grimoald temporarily had to pay tribute to Charlemagne after an invasion in 787.

Lest any Briton accuse his rulers of bunking off over summer, Mr Campbell has instructed every department to produce at least two big news stories every week for the next two months, in order to highlight the government's "core message".