Sentence examples for attempt to head off from inspiring English sources

Catherine's book of hours might have been partly an attempt to head off eternal damnation.

Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky said that the donations were clearly an attempt to head off regulation.

Diamond eventually accepted tweaks to the deal in an attempt to head off a major revolt.

The move is an attempt to head off federal regulation of such exclusive handset deals.

These reforms, though laudable, look like a last-minute attempt to head off stronger action.

In the Damascus suburb Qaboun, security forces closed the main mosque in an apparent attempt to head off protests there.

Critics have claimed the gesture was an attempt to head off international criticism ahead of the opening ceremony next month.

It has represented Connecticut and, Evrard said, consults quarterly with the school in an attempt to head off any violations.

The proclamation was a desperate attempt to head off an invasion by Indonesia, which followed on 7 December.

Let the Federal Reserve keep cutting interest rates in an attempt to head off an economic slowdown.

The E.C.B. has raised its main rate in two steps since April, from 1 percent to the current 1.5 percent, in an attempt to head off rising inflation.