off-loading

Now that the Libya mission enters a new phase of peacekeeping and reconstruction, the Obama administration needs to move from a posture of leading from behind to firmly off-loading all remaining responsibilities onto the European allies.

Ted Galen Carpenter: Off-Load Foreign Policy Problems, Don't "Lead From Behind" Ted Galen Carpenter 2011

But the auto maker and its stock underwriters have been pushing the Treasury to sell most or all of its remaining stake this year, rather than off-loading shares gradually over the next few years.

U.S. Sees Quicker Exit From GM Sharon Terlep 2011

Harris suffered a stroke while in port off-loading at St. Paul Island in Alaska on Jan. 30.

Discovery Channel Planning Tribute To Captain Phil Harris 2010

There have been glimpses of Toby Flood taking the point of decision‑making into the very faces of his opponents, of the England pack mixing old set-piece virtues with a new off-loading daring, of Chris Ashton confirming England's surge of confidence with swallow-diving exuberance.

Six Nations 2011: England still need to get rid of their stutter | Eddie Butler 2011

Something stirred, the memory of the two women off-loading and the words of the caulker and his own reaction.

The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber 2009

McCloskey fell over in the fourth round but Khan was the clumsier, off-loading too many telegraphed blows, although his class was still present in some sporadic punches that hurt the Irishman.

Anger reigns as Amir Khan wins homecoming against Paul McCloskey 2011

In a recent essay in Mother Jones, Ted Genoways blames the decline -- both in numbers and in influence -- of university-affiliated literary magazines not on the university administrators who are, as Genoways puts it, "off-loading" such magazines, nor or the editorial practices by which these magazines determine what they will publish, but on writers themselves.

January 2010 2010

In a recent essay in Mother Jones, Ted Genoways blames the decline -- both in numbers and in influence -- of university-affiliated literary magazines not on the university administrators who are, as Genoways puts it, "off-loading" such magazines, nor or the editorial practices by which these magazines determine what they will publish, but on writers themselves.

Writing and Publishing 2010

Cap and Tax Fiction: Democrats off-loading economics to pass climate change bill.

House Democrats unsure of global warming bill's passage 2009

One key effect of the symbolic politics of off-loading this feminized work is that the resulting masculinist image of the military serves to rationalize the privatization of the armed forces.

David Isenberg: The Feminine Side of Private Military Contractors David Isenberg 2011