Strike off

"Strike off" in a Sentence (21 examples)

She struck off his name from the list.

The doctor was struck off the medical register for professional misconduct.

Dr. Steel Scott Struck Off the Medical Register

"From 1992, when Dr. Starkie's name was struck off the medical register, he has been practicing—and he is entitled to do so. His name coming off the register has not made him unqualified[…]"

Andrew Wakefield, the British gastroenterologist who sparked a worldwide scare over the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, has been found guilty of serious professional misconduct and struck off the medical register by the General Medical Council.

The short answer is that I took a job, with a platonic male friend, as resident porn critics for The Erotic Review magazine, literary Middle England's answer to Razzle. It was only meant to be a bit of fun—writing earnest critiques about what motivates this gardener or why that naughty doctor isn't struck off—but it soon turned to boredom, frustration and occasionally disgust.

Prosecutors said Flora Mendes had already been struck off in 2015 after being found guilty of providing unregulated immigration advice.

Even if the BACP strikes someone off its register, it does not have the power to stop them using the title.

He was kind enough to strike off the debt.

But where's th'overseer now, to put um i'their reight places?—tardy,—tardy! always tardy. Odsbuddikins, I'll strike off a quarter of a day's wages fro' all that come nut at th'reight time,—I'll teach um.

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Nothing is heard but the monotonous houp! hank! of the Indians, as in a cloud of steam of their own manufacture, they strike off the paper. Nothing can be seen without but a shower of quarters, bits, and dimes darkening the air as they are thrown from the purchasers.

I'll strike off a copy for the subeditor later.

Strike off his head, I command you!

PITHIAS: […] That loues him better then his owne life, and will doo to his ende: / ake mee, Oh mightie Kinge, my lyfe I pawne for his, / Strike off my head, if Damon hap at his day to misse.

Captain: Convey him hence and on our longboat's side / Strike off his head.

[…] This my head / Should any stranger strike off, if starke dead

She decided to strike off on a new course.

They both said, Robin was order'd to carry me to my Father's. And Mr. Colbrand was to leave me within ten Miles, and then strike off for the other House, and wait till my Master arriv'd there. They both spoke so solemnly, that I cannot but believe them.

This is a country of great open spaces, amid which, in the neighbourhood of Dean, the rather remote looking single line to Fordingbridge and Wimborne strikes off to the south-west.

On the other hand, it may well have been his very familiarity with the work his predecessors had already done in this field, Schubert's and Bruckner's in particular, that encouraged him to strike off on a new line of his own; one must always bear in mind that Mahler lived at the end of a great musical tradition and was obliged to innovate, to assert his originality, if he was to survive as an independent voice.

Instead of the middle course which had been followed by previous statesmen, he struck off on a new line, veering well to starboard, and avoiding the cranks, the experts and the sentimentalists on the port side.

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