Sentence examples for strife off from inspiring English sources

The players, perhaps wisely, kept labor strife off the agenda.

So much of last season's title success was down to the manager, Chris Wilder, keeping a winning team focused during a period of unprecedented strife off the pitch but he has left for Sheffield United and Rob Page has come in from Port Vale.

In Oaxaca, the site of violent strife set off by teachers' protests in 2006, members of the teachers' union blocked streets and entrances to shopping malls this month, bringing parts of the state capital to a virtual halt.

CHICAGO — Asian carp, the voracious, nonnative fish whose arrival near Lake Michigan is threatening to cause havoc in the Great Lakes, are now setting off strife on land as well.

Naomi Bedford's intriguing background in folk and rock, and political activism come together on this varied set of songs about "freedom, dissent and strife", which show off her compelling, no-nonsense vocals and ambitious range.

Prejudice and ethnic strife feed off abstraction.

That set off bloody strife between Hindus and Muslims.

But such internal strife tends to put off the voters.

Blair had been warned, for example, that invasion would set off "internal strife" inside Iraq.

The bank was acquired in 1984 by American Express amid internal strife and then spun off again eight years later with Fuld as chief executive.

In December 1979, the Soviet Army marched in to try to end that strife, but instead touched off a civil war that lasted a decade.