Sentence examples for shorten off from inspiring English sources

Several senior figures have attempted to warn Shorten off backing Kitching, who is a close friend of the Labor leader.

Not bad for a team that went 2-14 the previous season and, coming off the lockout shortened off-season, was acclimating to a virtually all-new coaching staff.

But improvements may not translate into victories given the harder schedule, shortened off-season (which hurt young players most) and higher expectations.

Who knows what caused Freeman to take a step back in Year 3 (lockout-shortened off-season? Lack of playmakers around him? Overmatched coaching staff?).

After 30 minutes or so, Shorten tore off the vendor's vest and switched to telling journalists how he was actually quite sad at the turmoil surrounding Tony Abbott.

With both Turnbull and Shorten kicking off their campaigns on the Streets of Your Town in Queensland, Guardian Australia staff voted the Go-Betweens' 1988 single the state's unofficial anthem.

It was drastically shortened, cutting off the use of some of the dangerous roads, and it also used part of the public highways and was therefore fairly wide by comparison.

But if it results in extra offspring (or, at least, if not competing guarantees no offspring), then it is worth it, evolutionarily speaking.That, however, suggests that female titi and owl monkeys must be involved in a life-shortening trade-off of their own.

Turnbull and Shorten will square off for their first formal debate of the election campaign on Sunday night.

Shorten cuts me off: "It's the job before the one you want, but in my opinion the only way to get to the job you want is to do the job you've got".

The shock victory of the British conservatives had cemented the Australian Coalition's certainly that a similar strategy would see off Shorten's Labor despite Abbott's disastrous first year – an attack focussed on a weak leader and Labor's alleged incompetence and predilection for taxing the rich and helping the very poor and ignoring the hard-working middle.