How To Use Buy off In A Sentence
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The Vagabonds, in effect, buy off the by-blow of their hired man's romance, and the action of the novel consists of what the present generation makes of that earlier gift.
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The $4.3 billion in canal fees the government received last year helped subsidize staples like bread; less revenue means less money to buy off the masses, and government officials fear a repeat of the bread riots that gripped northern Egypt in 2008.
Exodus
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At worst, it is an exercise in short-term political cynicism intended to buy off the war critics.
Times, Sunday Times
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Feel Free To Customise and Whimsiclise My Vagina is it called skilling? where you buy off yourself?
Regretsy – Not Kosher – NSFW
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Provinces won in war could later be milked of tribute to enrich the Roman state and its rulers and to buy off any risk of discontent at home.
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If be of small area, repair also can buy off-the-peg glue to undertake repairing from market.
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Yes, it will," said the captain of the xebeque; "and remember, you scoundrel, if you can escape and buy off justice, you shall not escape seven Portuguese knives, -- mind you that.
The Privateersman
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But Peter Carroll, a former haulier leading the FairFuelUK campaign group, said the move might be enough to buy off truckers agitating for fuel blockades.
Budget 2011: Surprise fuel duty concession will cost oil industry £10bn
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They want a property they can buy off the shelf, fully managed, as they will barely use it.
Times, Sunday Times
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The grant will be used for social activities and to buy office equipment.
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Do you think Obama will be able to buy off the UK judges with a DVD box set and a few trinkets from the White House giftshop?
The Volokh Conspiracy » No Habeas Jurisdiction Over Bagram Air Force Base
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That's not something you can buy off the shelf.
Times, Sunday Times
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To utilise bulk-buy offers, make double and freeze half for a later date.
The Sun
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Ragoba, however, found means not only to pay his troops, but to buy off some of the chiefs of the hostile confederacy; and then he and his English allies marched upon Poona, which was a kind of Mahratta capital.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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“As long as members have the chance to spend their lives in Washington, their interests will always skew toward spending taxpayer dollars to buy off special interests, covering over corruption in the bureaucracy, fund-raising, relationship building among lobbyists, and trading favors for pork—in short, amassing their own power.”
Broke
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I was told to simply buy Office 95, register it by snail-mail or fax and include a copy of the receipt with the registration.
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However, I don't buy off on the notion perpetuated by the Germans that German beer is better because its German and is brewed in strict accordance with the Reinheitsgebot.
America v Germany
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‘If this was an attempt to buy off the unions before the conferences, they have seriously miscalculated,’ he said.
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One clause promised to buy off Conde's German mercenaries, led by John Casimir of the Palatinate, with a payment of 500,000 ecus.
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His attempts to buy off Viking invaders gave him the name, Ethelred the Unready.
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If Obama wants to buy off Pharma in private then the least we are owed is to know who was involved and what was decided.
Matthew Yglesias » Transparent Negotiations
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And when you're the king, you can banish the insiders who displease you and you can try to buy off the outsiders.
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To utilise bulk-buy offers, make double and freeze half for a later date.
The Sun