Sentence examples for waged off from inspiring English sources

The ruins are a result of the war that has been waged off and on since 1988 between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountain enclave of spectacular beauty whose population has been heavily Armenian for the last century but which lies within the territory of rival Azerbaijan.

In Gaza, Hamas has waged an off-and-on war with Israel even as it has cracked down on local crime and picked up the trash.

They had been killed in the on-off insurgency waged by Sunni militants, since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, he said.

After Friday's figures came out, some news accounts suggested that the moment when wages take off might be upon us.

After Friday's figures came out, some news accounts suggested that the moment when wages take off might be upon us.

As wages level off, medals and awards that raise status without costing hard currency might substitute as compensation, as practiced in the Soviet period, beginning principally in the 1930s, when such status symbols, rather than salaries, measured accomplishment.

For many workers, this means that if contract talks reach an impasse, the government will be able, at least in theory, to dictate all terms, like wages, time off and work rules.

It is difficult to envisage wages taking off when the public sector is shedding jobs and facing a two-year pay freeze and there are 2.5m people unemployed, close to 8% of the labour force.

Veterans of past presidential campaigns waged there shrug it off.

As they waged war on and off the track, both men were visibly out of their comfort zones.

We were married for 22 years but I never knew what it was to take a wage off him.