off as

Even though you may be goal oriented, such a question may come off as if you feel entitled or special.

Don't just check to see that the switch is off, as a switch could get bumped or malfunction.

I have been deeply hurt, and you're just standing there, laughing it off as if it's some kind of a joke.

I wanted to know how Jane managed to pull this off as I now started to think about if it was possible for myimmolation to pass as a woman.

'I might have written 'immortality' on the list thinking I would never achieve it, but it turns out I wasn't as far off as I imagined. '

Hope buoyed up his spirits, but fear made him nervous. He wanted to sleep but could not drop off as he lay sprawled out on some hay.

But late last night there was a stand-off as officers moved to start to break up the climate camp that had been set up.

I gather you passed this off as a joke but the reaction in the pub was one of shock, not laughter.

Economic activity is sustainable if future generations can expect to be at least as well off as today's.

Adaptive Server Anywhere will attempt to pass off as much of the statement as is possible.

Economies, he thought, do not "take off" , as if from nowhere.

Trying to be teacher's pet. Your behavior will come off as phony and your classmates may start to resent you.

This does not mean that it's useless to get over 10% but it does mean that the benefits drop off as you get higher and higher Magic Find.

And if you thrive on the prestige that comes with your job, be prepared for that to level off as well.

Even in the worst case, when a change record starts off as vague or high-level, it is at least being tracked and documented.

Now I can refer to my central 'basket' of ideas and tick them off as I complete them - and then kick back in the sun!

occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

And thou dost cut off, as far as it is in thy power, when thou art dissatisfied, and in a manner triest to put anything out of the way.

Some chip technology experts said the top spot for Tianhe could be a one-off, as Japan unseated the US before in the rankings in 2002.

He was arrested a few streets away from his house after police received a tip-off as to his whereabouts.

He bounded off as she spoke, scarcely stopping to listen, for it was so delightful for him to breathe the fresh air and be free again.

First, the heart of an embryo starts off as a little tube, similar to the heart of a goldfish.

"Nay, " he said, "you don't get off as easy as that, my lad. We've got to have a full account of this business. "

Steadying himself with the Goat's horns, he safely reached the mouth of the well and made off as fast as he could.

Some high school graduates see a year off as a chance to recover after twelve years of required education.

Peter told him. And with this he pulled his line out of the water and ran off as fast as he could.

Then the lights clicked off as the last box was loaded into the truck and I said a handful of warm goodbyes to people I'd never met before.

STEP 2: Prepare to cross your Skis as you reach the lip. Incline your head back when you take off as if you are looking skyward .

Don't be put off, as the fish is so fresh it's alive right up to you choosing it from large plastic buckets filled with water at the front.

When the bumble continued to look for its you-know-what, they chopped those off as well.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

I haven't seen the replay yet, but he seemed like he threw his hands up in the air after Brooks passed off as if he was upset.

stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing have happen.

It would be easy to write this off as sour grapes and to tell the Chinese to spend more time building wealth than resenting it.

Take off ? As the aircraft was ready to take off, all the passengers fastened their seat belts.

All those corrupt ministers are trying to cream off as much as possible before the next election.

Should we assume some sort of Oxygen depleting burn off as the methane reaches the atmosphere?

It is no secret that during the financial crisis companies did not write off as much goodwill as they probably should have.

"I had to tell him off, as he needs to let me be more relaxed on the bench! " laughed Ferrara.

Some even take a year or two off as a sabbatical, supporting a cause after cashing out of their business.

We were running up and down the court, laughing our asses off as the players got hammered with no whistles.

I stared at him, realizing that his analysis and strategy were correct. I had worked my head off, as I had never done before.

But, like he used to say, "you never really died off , as long as you got good story and someone to tell to. "

He worked hard six days a week and looked forward to his day off as an oasis of rest and relaxation.

The fact that both images seem to be based off of two Tsubasa works, it's too blatant to shrug off as coincidence or "artistic license. "

More problematic, it's hard to take these things off as if they were "glued" to her body.

In needlework this edge is usually cut off AS it is woven more tightly than the rest of the material and is inclined to shrink more.

Turn everything off as if you were leaving home for the day. Then go look at your electric meter.

I said she should take as much time off as she needed.

On seeing this, I thought he began to look a little queer, so I turned it off as well as I could.

In Shanghai, some of the public buses begin to run on natural gas, which does not give off as much carbon dioxide as the petrol.

Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. Even a bad German accent will do.

Our plane delayed taking off as we ran into a storm. We were held up for several hours at the airport, waiting for the storm to clear up.

Unemployment is going up in that country instead of leveling off as claimed by some of the papers.

He never dreamed that his request would be laughed off as a childish fancy.

he wanted to be practical , and he was going to marry a girl with a huge dowry and end off as a prefer , like his father before him.

In those cases, cut the speaker off as soon as possible with a simple "Excuse me - I've got to go. "

These could be written off as temporary factors hitting supply if it weren't for a remorseless increase in demand.

The exposure to DOS attacks is usually shrugged off as the cost of doing business .

I hope I did not come off as rude to your mom. I really want her to like me.

If it turns out they were not a spy at all, pass it off as a light-hearted practical joke.

None of this means that the threat of cybercrime can be written off as pure invention, or that people should turn off their spam filters.

Partly, that's happening because birds are dying or they have to be killed off as a means of controlling the disease.

Message Emitter and Message Logger enable the ability to turn logging on and off, as well as the option to log to a flat file.

InfoQ: The mobile app for the enterprise market seems to be taking off as well, what are some the key differences with the consumer market?

Even if you can't draw, this look is fairly easy to pull off as the doodles are generally super basic.

There was no way to stop the news getting out about your being cut off as a spokesman.

Also, the present versions of the system have low efficiency, because a great deal of power is being given off as heat and light.

Independent scientists have not been able to verify that the countries set off as many devices as they profess.

B: Yes, but he brushed it off as if it were not a big deal to him.

It may then become permanent on the surface or fall off AS a result of abrASion.

And like all new-look web services, it's sure to piss off as many people as it pleases. At least in the beginning.

Things we used to say were verboten are now considered an acceptable risk-return trade-off as liquidity and hedging markets have developed.

With some help from Kareem Abdul Jabbar, his hard work paid off as he has emerged as one of the top young centers in the league.

Also, a direct call to the Web service outside of the application context may be able to pass itself off as another application.

When history is written, I think it will show that without the visual nature of the Web, it never would have taken off as an IT substrate.

The Twilight actress revealed that interviews make her feel uncomfortable, admitting that she does not mean to come off as distant.

Terry: Yes, but he should bush it off as if it were not a big deal to him.

She starts off as kind of that, "Oh, she's just the bad girl, " running around with a lightsaber.

The boy reluctantly turned the TV off as the clock struck ten, time for him to go to bed.

He never wrote me off as a good, mature kid who could handle everything herself.

Some might write her off as just a pop singer, but I think what Lady Gaga is doing is profound.

OR You "re used to cheap gifts and like to pass yourself off as a cultured person who recognizes the power and beauty of the written word. "

The dealer tried to palm the painting off as a genuine Picasso, but I know it was a fake.

You don't want to call yourself an expert without a third party endorsement anyways or it comes off as superficial and self-proclaimed.

Jackie Chan is the man. He started off as a stunt double for the Bruce Lee films like this scene from "Fists of Fury" . . .

Nor is repression as easy to pull off as it once was.

In anticipation of that rapid reversal, gold will take off as it hasn't for a generation.

I ended up being based with the United States marines and he went off as part of a bomb disposal team.

Tell her you'll tell her when you see her on your first date. You'll come off as mysterious. She'll eat it up.

And that's what Americans have been passing off as state-of-the-art design to Chinese clients who don't know much about golf.

And even one deal would be a historic moment for a complex financial product many wrote off as extinct in Europe.

Air France said the flights affected are short and medium haul only. Long haul should take off as normal.

I don't want you. . . . . . " Her voice trailed off as she noticed the turtle move. " Myrddin, your turtle is not dead after all.

And so it shoots up a little bit, people will be able to put it off as speculation of eating vegetables.

If you're like most, you've probably tinkered with Twitter for a few weeks, then written it off as a diversion.

Lucas was sent off as Liverpool lost at Merseyside rivals Everton in the FA Cup last season in one of his lowest experiences.

You may have to do a little self-promotion, but try not to come off as a braggart.

First off, as far as anyone who has studied the issue can tell, despite vast differences, on the whole, humanity has never been better.

In addition to passing himself off as a businessman, Daisey said he used other investigative tactics.

At least as many days off as you had on.

The labelling strips can be inserted more easily, if the corners are cut-off as shown in the diagram below.

And if it does, he argues, you rip it off as quickly as you can.

He wore black boots, badly soiled, and the left one hung half off as if his foot were broken.

These animals, known as "cryptids" , are often the stuff of legends, written off as myths or elaborate hoaxes.

A few computers use nonvolatile chips, which retain data when the power is off, as a solid-state drive in place of an HDD.

Under such a circumstance I would give a flat denial , and ride off as fast as I could.

Food safety problems, who also ran off, as long as food safety hazard do not solve, happiness, we always possible to an abrupt end.

He passed himself off as the managing director to defraud the bank.

They have perfected what they need to send off as their attitude to make you think you should approach them or allow them to approach you.

Many food brands started off as a means of reassuring customers that products were trustworthy.

You will obtain the membership right after filling out a form, and when you buy things you will enjoy some price off as a member.

Still, a last-minute deal might come off as a well-received rescue of a bank that was on the verge of disappearing on Monday.

having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers.

To get to the front lines, each woman had to pass herself off as a man.

In a lesser actor's hands Stark could come off as just a villain.

If the bird's head is still attached, cut it off as close as possible to the body.

Musicality always comes off as spontaneity, and he was loved, early on, for that quality.

Gregory Williams is the son of a white mother and a father who passed himself off as Italian.

A source familiar with Fiat's thinking said on Tuesday that the auto business would be spun off as part of the plan.

Semih has also had a groin pull since training camp, so he's taking some time off as well.

Shou zheng had been allowed, to uphold the truth, impartiality, non-off as that is a very high of the moral realm and the pursuit of value.

In the end, Charles packed them up and sent them off as an enigmatic wedding present to his cousin Viktor in Vienna.

It was an open game from the kick-off as both sides looked to play the ball around at speed.

Please do not search for an already made template and pass it off as your own.

The leaf production continues, but as a result of leaf abscission, the older, lower leaves will drop off, as the plant grows taller.

For to you is the promise and to your children, and to all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God calls to Himself.

Lasting past maturity without falling off, as the calyx on an eggplant or the scales of a pine cone.

The jewellery and watch categories have taken off as well , with Sotheby's and Christie's reporting record growth in both areas .

The new world order anticipates Asian consumption taking off as some of these savings are spent.

Such extravagances, which break no rules, might be shrugged off as business as usual in ordinary times.

After a couple of takes, Lucas asks Jackson to add a hand gesture that warns Anakin to back off as he prepares to execute the Sith.

The MGM Studios in Hollywood, where she went at 24 in 1941, tried to pass her off as a Latina on her contract.

The car alarm went off as John Doe was trying to steal the car.

Many signs start off as pictorial representation of a physical object, often misleadingly called pictograms.

Nick is among those to be laid off as he is considered over the hill by management.

Even if its fighters scuttle to the mangrove swamps, they are likely to be picked off as they emerge.

Lini's laughter cut off as the sharp barking of a dog came into the room from not far off.

Instead, it will offer the expertise of its faculty on a new for-profit site which will be spun off as an independent company.

The first version of the wampa started off as an immense costume designed by Joe Johnston, intended for location shooting in Finse, Norway.

And the lone American comes off as -- well, kind of a spoiled kid.

In high school most people had written Jack off as an actor, so they were really surprised when he became a movie star years later.

But Wal-Mart's heft continued to pay off, as the world's largest retailer gained more ground on competitors such as Target.

The only negative is that during our stay half the lobby was blocked off as it was undergoing some renovations.

Thus, we tend to this that the euro is still at risk from a sell off as risk events start to crop up.

He passed his wife off as a famous film star.

The chrome trim on the keypad between the letters partially broke off as well.

Frank Lampard was superb in early season but has tailed off as his team-mates began to struggle.

Even though farmers would seem better off nominally, in real terms they would actually be as badly off as they were originally.

I couldn't think of any actress who could pull this scene off as sexily and comically as Jamie Lee Curtis does.

Out of the casket sprang a hare and scampered off as fast as it could.

No, they'll light it up and try to pass it off as the latest bar decor.

When he worked in France , the kitchens would routinely rip the labels off ingredients imported from Britain , to pass them off as local .

When others appear irrational, negotiation geniuses do not write them off as crazy.

All cords of attachment of the past fall off as one enters the moment, and all energy begins to move again.

e. g. I hope I didn't come off as rude to your mother. I really want her to like me.

Swings in individual IQ scores are often written off as the product of measurement error or a test subject having a bad day.

Knowing how to work with the media will help you come off as a pro even if it's your first media event.

and of course, it's all true because Bill Gates has so much money that he can write the project off as a marketing expense.

In water, however, the peak overpressure does not fall off as rapidly with distance as it does in air.

When I saw him I expected him to back off as I was the leader and then he didn't, so I backed off.

Broke into his house, took some things of Speak and ran off as fast as he could.

If I start feeling burned out, I can always cut back on the hours or take extra days off as needed.

He tried to palm the painting off as a real one.

The face-off , as well as funds for A shares to the shock created good conditions.

Pay attention not to spread the glue on your fingers or clothes. If you did, wash it off as quickly as possible.

With more workers likely to be laid off as production is cut, consumer demand could drop further.

The material was kept in large rolls. And the storekeeper cut off as much as a woman wanted.

He denied all knowledge of any labor violations, shrugging this off as "rumors" by competitors.

"Anybody that starts off as a hedger becomes a gambler and I have taken too many losses from hedging, so I don't do it anymore, " he says.

The antiquarian tried to palm the painting off as a real Renoir.

I don't mean to come off as snarky, but surely a smart screenwriter like Christopher Nolan can do better than this.

A cutting of Devil's Snare, passed off as a potted plant (Flitterbloom), was used to murder Broderick Bode in St. Mungo's.

Usually, citations dropped off as the geographical distance between the first and last authors got bigger.

Some political leaders have publicly written Jordanian- born Zarqawi off as a spent force , and he has kept a low profile recently .

The property also includes values that represent variance, which you can mask off as shown in the following code.

His voice trails off as he contemplates his birthplace's industrial decline.

It usually passes itself off as a sports, music or cheerleading squad on campuses as well as groups of models.

This happens because CO is a master of disguise -- it's able to pass itself off as oxygen.

The meeting had to be called off as most members were absent.

We came exactly to that conclusion-- that the gravitational acceleration falls off as one over r squared.

The skirt slipped off as she strutted down the "dog walk" before the judges.

Not because he passes your work off as his own: this makes perfect sense and is what most bosses do.

At the same time, many mining stocks have come off as concern has crept in that China will also be affected by the global slowdown.

Some of you will undoubtedly write this off as lies invented after the fact, but whatever.

Being free from debt will give you more options. So before you hit the road, pay off as much debt as possible.

What started off as an around-the-world boating trip ended in tragedy on Tuesday.

All this scuttlebutt was laughed off as nonsense.

He comes off as an arrogant smooth-talker. Honestly, despite the smile, his personality makes me wish he stayed a frog forever.

My mother started off as a film actress, but after marriage, he became a housewife, because she wanted to devote herself to her family.

It's believed that the ring may have simply fallen off as a donor was dropping money into the boot.

But I put it off as long as possible because planting bulbs means making space in borders which are still flowering.

Leonard: If I were you, I'd be more concerned about what they were passing off as chicken.

It's easy to write him off as just an eccentric old bore.

'I left off as I began - of my own fancy. '

This can be neatly explained as a one-off, as customers delayed buying while they waited for version 4s to roll out after the quarter ended.

The face of praise and encouragement, to laugh it off as a modest sober, and then keep making progress, it is a force.

Ordinarily, the disinformation contained in the film could be written off as just another political strategy to mold public opinion.

The work is repetitive, and the workers are regarded as a variable cost to be taken on or laid off as demand dictates.

Beijing will continue buying Su-30s, but that will taper off as it develops its own capabilities.

All of us who write articles and blog postings have had our work stolen by others who pass it off as their own.

CUT TO A SMALL HERD OF DEER , startled and scared , veering wildly off as BUTCH and SUNDANCE come riding along .

If Rashad McCants is looking to get out of the D-League, he can cross China off as one his potential escape routes.

Most of what I write starts off as junk, then it becomes piles of junk.

Meanwhile, about 600 agents stationed in the subways have been laid off as a result of the budget.

The motor was cut off as soon as something seemed to be wrong with it.

These capture heat and gases that had previously been released into the air or burned off as waste.

Childless and twice married, the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union often comes off as reserved and self-effacing.

What's new now is that capital raising is being spun off as a separate unit by the banks, in an effort to focus more on the service itself.

All this scuttle butt was laughed off as nonsense.

If you'd saved _footer. gsp in the trip directory, you'd leave the leading slash off as well.

Under GGS loans are written off as a part of financial prudence, but the amount is neither forgotten nor forgiven.

Some people have written the competition off as not being so important, but lifting that trophy in February gives you a great feeling.

LeBron's game is more raw power than grace, and compared with Jordan or Kobe, LeBron comes off as a little stiff and robotic.

Throwpower drops off as current is consumed in the production of gas and is not available to permit the covering of recessed areas.

He wants you to convict her of murder because she came off as cold in the witness chair.

Graham started off as a real skeptic but quickly turned around.

Please turn all the lights off as you leave the building, we can't afford to waste power.

Just wear multiple layers, so you can take them off as you heat up.

She runs off as well. Arthas begins on a quest to purge zombies from town.

They came off as sheets of carbon atoms linked together in a hexagonal array, rather like microscopic chicken wire.

Although it is starting off as a cyclical downturn, the bigger story is that the law of economic gravity is catching up with China, too.

The tumor starts off as a polyp but then turns into an invasive and violent cancer, which often spreads to the liver.

He passed his secretary off as his wife.

A better-than-expected report on home prices was largely written off as getting a lift from a now expired home buyer tax credit.

Old problems in the disputed, Muslim-majority territory in the mountainous north are waved off as a remote affair.

Moo started off as a single milk product and in less than 18 months has seen its portfolio expand across three more categories.

As the flower of life dreams take off as the dominant human dream, everything will restructure itself ahead.

Western scholars seriously considered the existence of vampires for the first time rather than just brushing them off as superstition.

Those slippers will never come off as long as you're alive.

SunYuTian home economic condition of the big four have to sell off as formerly, jewelry, dismissed the servant.

I hope this information does not scare you off, as I too have decided I need permanent companionship.

You can't put a jackass on a plane and expect it to get off as a racehorse. But try we will.

'It comes off as an invitation for conflict. A simple addition of 'thanks' goes a long way. '

You cannot just stop and get off as you can on the treadmill.

This insignificant amount should be written off as a bad debt.

Scientists can perhaps write that kind of trend off as an uncertainty and wait for more data.

Those who wanted to write him off as a right-wing Republican were disabused by the variety of radical causes he championed.

It started off as a regular dream, and then at some point I realized I was carrying a gargoyle, which seemed odd to me.

His strategy, he said, was "to buy a reliable car and pay it off as soon as possible. "

The FOXP2 protein then latches onto other genes in developing neurons and switches them on or off as well.

Add to that various corporate, payroll and production taxes, oilmen complain, and the state creams off as much as 92% of profits.

Mothers are often powerless to prevent their daughters from being married off, as Yemeni law gives custodianship to fathers.

Sales growth in general is leveling off as the impact of stimulus policies for the auto sector fades.

The weight starts to come off as he signs up for 5km and 10km races.

I now realise he has been secretly siphoning off the leads and passing them off as his own.

Often this starts off as a single blog maintained by one person published on the corporate intranet.

Jim hates hotel taps that turn off as soon as you turn them on. Jim detests slow moving lifts.

Mr Novak had nothing in common with the partisan water-carriers who pass themselves off as conservative "journalists" .

This interface controls powering the vending machine on and off, as shown in Figure 1.