Sentence examples for were warned off from inspiring English sources

Pressmen were warned off and threatened with arrest for "obstructing" the police.

When I first started playing we were warned off weight-training.

As they approached it, they were warned off by gunmen in the doorway of a hovering helicopter.

This morning, youngsters who taunted soldiers by running up to the tanks and armored personnel carriers near the Church of the Nativity were warned off gingerly.

MPs were "warned off" pursuing the phone-hacking scandal in Parliament as part of a cover-up, a Labour frontbencher claimed last night during an incendiary speech in which he accused the country's biggest police force of misleading a Commons committee, and its biggest newspaper group of engaging in the "dark arts" of tapping, hacking and blagging.

That's a good thing – you'd be pretty upset if your brand new toy got devoured on its first outing, but the PowerVision team say it's more likely to have the opposite effect, explaining they were going to use this in the shark tank but were warned off; the sharks here are so old that the staff was worried they'd have a heart attack.

Does anyone who is even moderately interested in movies need to be warned off "How to Save a Marriage - and Ruin Your Life?" That seems as superfluous as warning a gourmet against canned spaghetti.

He may have to be warned off".

But at the last minute he was warned off by a nervous associate.

Another approached the edge to jump down, she said, but was warned off by other straphangers.

Hence, Fay needed tough punishment so that all teenagers, western or Asian, would be warned off vandalizing cars in Singapore.