Often,he would pass islands with strong enemy forces, cut off their supplies and leave them with no chance to fight.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

"No you can't. The gas company turned it off." "Now,what I'm telling you is for your own good.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

"I have kept my mom off of Facebook. She wants one, I said 'No,you can't have one.'

VOA: special.2009.09.14

No one gets off the hook on this one -- from governments to schools, corporations to nonprofits, all the way down to families sitting around their dinner table."

VOA: special.2010.06.07

One unusual expression is that is no skin off my nose.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Pruning makes no sense. You cut off parts of a plant.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

There will be a run-off election in the presidential contest if no candidate captures more than 50 percent of the vote.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

"It is not where it needs to be. But people are no longer talking about the financial system falling off a cliff.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

But Israeli spokesman Zalman Shoval says with Iran's president still threatening to wipe the Jewish state "off the map", Israel is making no promises.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

In 2000,Russian President Vladimir Putin, signed off on an updated list of no-can-do jobs for women.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

If no candidate receives more than half of the total votes a run-off between the two top contenders is to be held in early October.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

"There's no indication that the B-1 breaking off from positive I.D.

VOA: standard.2009.06.08

There was no laid off, no contractors were caught in.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

"It's not a competition. It's not a sports event. There's no pistol going off and we all run and the guy who does it under 10 seconds comes in first.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

It arrested two Swiss businessmen, threatened to cut off crude oil deliveries, withdrew its money from Swiss banks, and told Swiss International Air Lines it could no longer fly to Tripoli.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

It is a big win for Aziz as Boulkheir and Daddah both had publicly pledged to support the other in a potential run-off against him, if no candidate won more than Aziz ran a populist campaign, calling himself the "Candidate of the Poor,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.19