We are accustomed to thinking of government transferring money from the well off to the poor.

The beach, as well as the skerries off the coast, are very popular in the summer.

Doctors and engineers, after all, are professionals. They are well off, well established members of society, not marginal figures whom we might expect to be drawn to desperate acts of violence.

You plug them in. Off you jolly well go.

Virtual enterprises are unusually innovative, and, in the business sector, they are possibly the only system that can build a one off product well.

Some say that young people in the rich countries are just too well off to mobilize politically, at least en masse.

Is it not enough for us to be well off? Why do we need to be better off than others?

But such considerations were off the table well before the deliberations began.

The critics reject the argument that small, open economies are necessarily better off in a monetary union, pointing to how well Switzerland is coping.

Where are you off to?

Now all bets are off.

This means that attention is diverted from the weakest and those most in need to those who already are well enough off to be organized.

I think they very well might have said, Let's call the whole thing off.

Sure, if we were all well off, none of us would have to work.

Well, you can't right now take off from your home because it's too noisy.

Your remarks are off the point.

Well, it turns out it's precisely the same remarkable machinery that all off us have.

But skepticism that money can be made off the poor extends well beyond the politician.

Asset prices create a large wealth effect that determines how financially well off people feel.

Leonardo also presented Lisa as fashionable and successful, perhaps more well off than she was.

If Bush and Schroeder are now showing the world how well they get along together, it is not because they are off to a new start, but because it suits their tactical interests.

And now, if you went into one of those conventions and you said, Well, I don't think black holes are out there, they'd hoot you off the stage.

The station had also been ordered off the air in February as well as in 2003.

Virtual enterprises are unusually innovative, and, in the business sector, they are possibly the only system that can build a one off product well. A conspicuous example already exists in the movie production industry.

But the conspiracy theories are off the mark.

Why are Afghan families selling off their daughters?

Some well informed people believe that those funds were used to kick off Pakistan s secret nuclear program.

Wars are expensive. But then we'd pay it off, pay it off, pay it off, and then, oh, what's this? The Civil War. Even more expensive.

There are 40 platforms and vessels around the world that could have submitted a tender for the drilling of the deep water (1,600 meter) oil exploration well off Cuban coasts.

Europe would be infinitely better off if Germany made a definitive choice between Eurobonds and a eurozone exit, regardless of the outcome indeed, Germany would be better off as well.

Well because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear

The first nationwide poll in nearly a decade passed off relatively well and was endorsed by Nepali officials as well as the hundreds of international election observers.

They are well off, well established members of society, not marginal figures whom we might expect to be drawn to desperate acts of violence. Moreover, they come from a scientific background, and science is usually not associated with religious zeal or political fanaticism.

Private savings, as a rule, can pay the costs of treatment only for the thrifty and the well off.

My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

Gazans are worse off than Israelis in every conceivable way.

The opium fields of wealthy landowners are untouched, because local officials are paid off.

I ve heard that schools are taking the day off and some businesses are closing.

And if tempers are still too high, then they send someone off to visit some relatives as a cooling off period.

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

Sometimes, well off sections of low castes broke away to form new castes and managed to achieve higher ritual status.

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

Sometimes there are unexpected rewards to be found at Book Off

Take off your shoes . You are in the sacred valley , Tuwa !

Lo ! those who ward off ( evil ) are among gardens and watersprings .