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  • Unlike typical roadside bombs, made of an artillery shell buried beneath a road or concealed in some trash, an EFP was what some militaries called an "off-route mine," because it was placed beside a road.

    David Isenberg: Armed Humanitarians: Part 1 David Isenberg 2010

  • The good stuff: MapQuest 4 Mobile features voice guidance, off-route assistance it warns you if you get off course and can automatically re-route you, nice point-of-interest integration, and plain-text search.

    MapQuest 4 Mobile | CurveHouse.com 2010

  • It all comes from an incident during his early adulthood when he and his mother were on a trip, saw such a sign, and did indeed go off-route to see the two-headed calf.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Will 2009

  • It all comes from an incident during his early adulthood when he and his mother were on a trip, saw such a sign, and did indeed go off-route to see the two-headed calf.

    DesignerBlog Will 2009

  • Some argue that, because it would not protect against the so-called "off-route" mine, we should not use the RG-31, an argument as fatuous as saying that, because a Challenger tank is not proof against an anti-tank missile, they should not be deployed.

    Of course we do care Richard 2006

  • The "threat" – for which the Sunday Telegraph's Sean Rayment, carefully "fed" by the MoD, has fallen, hook line and sinker – is that the "real" problem is not inadequate Land Rovers but the so called "off-route" mine, crafted by those wicked Iranians.

    Through "toys" to the truth Richard 2006

  • What is then especially interesting is that we also saw what appeared to be an MoD-inspired propaganda campaign suggesting that a new threat from off-route mines was so great that new equipment would not make any difference.

    What turned the tide? Richard 2006

  • But if it appears headed for the White House or the Pentagon or the Capitol or Camp David, and it's off-route, that may be the only alternative you have.

    CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2001 2001

  • I made a couple of brief off-route cultural stops both in an automobile driven by a photographer who followed me for a couple of days.

    NYT > Home Page By BRUCE WEBER 2011

  • A subscription is required for turn-by-turn voice guidance with automatic off-route recalculation, real-time traffic information and multimodal pedestrian routing.

    unknown title 2011

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