Sentence examples for surely off from inspiring English sources

Plans to revolutionise higher education and halve the cost of student fees are to be proposed by former Labour cabinet minister John Denham, as he warns that "the whole system of university finance for English students is sliding slowly but surely off a cliff".

Something was surely off about Mark, though he and even A.D.M. were really symptoms of a greater disease — greed, corruption, name your capitalist vice — that was eating away at the country, until it popped bubbles, forced millions out of work and plunged the United States into the economic abyss.

The silly spiritualists have betted on many dates in the past and they are as surely off base this time around as well.

But it's tough to sell this logic to a Northern electorate prone to seeing the South's predicament as a plain instance of profligacy (a diagnosis that is surely off the mark in Spain's case).

Wacha, Rosenthal and Martinez are surely off limits, but St . Louismight be willing to part with Miller, Lynn, Kelly, Maness or Siegrist if the Angels would include shortstop Erick Aybar or center fielder Peter Bourjos, who have been linked with the Cardinals this winter.

Rent-a-diva Rita Ora then belted out a throbbingly trancey Avicii number which was surely off-brand for the Strictly viewership.

Somewhere, Buddy Ryan surely turned off his television in disgust.

But they just as surely ward off valid suits.

This surely sets off alarm bells from the past.

This one will surely pay off, except in Dayton's case.

When the call comes, Gore will surely shave off the beard and gird himself for battle.