Sentence examples for stand off from from inspiring English sources

Fundamentalist societies leave us rather baffled and we tend to stand off from them.

Accordingly, there was a tendency to equip aircraft with long-range guided weapons that would enable them to "stand off" from antiaircraft defenses, and these weapons were used to great effect against Iraq in 1991 in the Persian Gulf war.

The adjustable gantry allows for both heads to be attached at the same time and the FORS heads have a stand off from the object surface of 8 cm (visible) and 4 cm (infrared).

After requesting assistance from the CSC, Point Grey stood off from the trawler until arrived on scene.

Waddle decided that it would be safer to stand off the submarine from the group of survivors and wait for assistance to arrive.

A Silurian chain of volcanic islands stood off the Laurentian craton, stretching from the Klamath Mountains of northern California to Alaska.

So unless the B-52 is bombing low-end adversaries who lack air forces and air defenses, it will have to stand off hundreds of miles from intended targeted and let its cruise missiles perform the most dangerous part of the mission.

Q&A: who gains from the Najaf stand off?

For some reason, we always walked around it along the right-field side, never the other way, and each time I would wonder about the oddly arrayed ticket kiosks (General Admission fifty-five cents; Reserved Grandstand a dollar ten) that stood off at such a distance from the gates.

In cases where there is a finite misfit dislocation array stand-off from the interface in the welded interface limit, decreasing the interface stiffness results in smaller (or zero) stand-off distances.

The stand-off from Goroka scored Huddersfield's first try in the 46th minute to cut London's 12-0 half-time leand and injected desperately needed enthusiasm into a team which is understandably short of confidence.