| But at least you've staved it off for 30, 40 years so that you don't get those proportionate deadly results. |
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| A polite tongue provided a shield of tactful silence and banal pleasantries that staved off needless provocation and harm. |
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| In India, Warren Hastings's redoubtable defence of Clive's acquisitions staved off both French revanche and princely rebellion. |
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| They shrugged after the second Test was lost by a whimper, then spoke of relief when defeat was staved off in the third. |
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| But, following a shake-up of the board and some work being undertaken on the green, the axe has been staved off for the time being. |
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| We have staved off other suppliers that have been threatening winding-up orders so the Inland Revenue has increased again. |
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| At the same time, utter nihilism is staved off with some incisive and poignantly human touches. |
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| She was the property of Edward Brodess, an unprosperous farmer who staved off bankruptcy by hiring out or selling his slaves. |
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| A Ringwood business has staved off an enforcement notice from New Forest district council at the 11th hour. |
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| The damaged portion included a ventilation trunk, the walkway and a bulwark, which were staved in, and some bent frames. |
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| A wet and cool beginning to the growing season ended any chance of drought and staved off a predicted plague of grasshoppers. |
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| Easynet staved off competition to secure the business, which has seen Kohler outsource its entire EMEA network to Easynet. |
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| Then she undid by night what she had woven by day, and so staved off decision. Ulysses returned and drove out the suitors. |
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| Having staved off elimination, Azarenka served to pull ahead at 5-5 in the second set. |
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| Now he has been sidelined. For his part, Mr Hollande has staved off a crisis in the party, and shored up his personal credibility. |
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| Through timely budgetary support from major donors, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has staved off the impending crisis for now. |
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| Despite an environmentally hostile administration and a country preoccupied with the threat of war and terrorism, some key threats to the environment were staved off. |
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| The damage where the hull was staved in covered an area about 9 m long by 3.5 m wide. |
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| But so far they have merely staved off a collapse. |
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| Loyalty from amongst these clans staved off challenges to the empire's authority from rival regional leaders such as Dhaher al-Omar in the 18th century and Muhammad Ali-who briefly ruled Nablus-in the 19th century. |
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| The Financial Services Authority and the Serious Fraud Office are also investigating the way the bank staved off a taxpayer bailout in 2008 by raising funds in the Middle East. |
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| It neatly staved off Rowbotham's suggestion. |
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| As a result, Alzheimer's can be staved off or averted. |
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| Deflation was staved off and tentative recoveries took hold. |
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| The takeover staved off the threat of administration. |
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| In the evening, the Rangers staved off two Yankees comebacks. |
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| First, however, let the Church and the nations invoke Mary under her new title and pray her prayer so that degeneration, disaster and war may be staved off from this world. |
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| Ignoring the orders of Pétain, the Vichy leader, to lay down their arms, he and his school staved off two German divisions for two days in the Loire. |
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| This soreness can be easily staved off with a simple activity: stretching! |
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| Only a heroic and passionate one-hour speech by Svend Robinson, the Bill's sponsor, exhausted the allotted time and staved off a vote that would have seen the Bill doomed to certain defeat. |
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| Modern beech chair with padded seat and vertical staved back. |
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| The exteriors of our mobile homes are designed to evoke the appearance of conventional homes, with staved panels and blinds fitted on the windows. |
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| Instead of the staved round back of the Greek bouzouki, Irish bouzoukis usually have a flat or lightly arched back. |
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| The size of the nuclear arsenals is believed by many historians to have staved off war between the two, as the consequences were too great to bear. |
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