Sentence examples for wean from inspiring English sources

One of the movement's objectives is also to wean the city's children from indoor video games to the free outdoors.

Developing countries have the opportunity to leapfrog the west in economic development, if they go straight to clean technology while rich countries struggle to wean themselves off fossil fuels, president Francois Hollande of France said on Wednesday.

Anwar offers a different vision for Malaysia, wanting to wean the country away from a policy of positive discrimination that for the past 30 years has ensured Malays dominate the country's politics, but which has been criticised for encouraging corruption and cronyism.

Rather than go cold turkey, Goodall recommends I wean myself off this clothes addiction by continuing to buy secondhand.

Could that happen to the separatists of Basque Homeland and Liberty (ETA), Europe's last big domestic terror group?A much-weakened ETA has done a lot to wean itself off violence.

Mr Brown has his admirable preoccupations: to wean the unemployed off welfare and into work, to make work pay, to increase educational opportunity.

This has annoyed music fans and done little to wean them off the pirate websites, which offer what they want for free.

They did not know it, but the southerners were in some sense part of Brazil's plan to wean itself off a dependency on an economic model that relied on kidnapping people in Mozambique, transporting them across the Atlantic and forcing them to work for nothing.Warne's fortunes in Brazil seem to have followed their previous trajectory.

They also acknowledge that the industry will have to wean itself from the habit of using profits from bigger cars to subsidise smaller ones, and find a way to start building downsized vehicles that make money.

The tone in the industry may no longer be set by people such as Mr Ellison, but by more prudent and cerebral chief executives such as SAP's Henning Kagermann.Incumbents will not find it easy to manage this transition: they will have to wean themselves from the heroin of growth.

The yuan's acceptance among investors would also require the kind of reform China needs to wean its economy from its investment-heavy, export-oriented growth model.The shift will not be easy.