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Cameron may not be able to stave one off indefinitely.

With luck, Congress may be able to stave off a shutdown later this month, though at a high cost.

By comparison, today's violence, though menacing, is much reduced.In this section Will it ever be able to stave off starvation?

By enforcing the patents, Glaxo may be able to stave off generic competition at least until 2003.

Pakistan's Army might be able to stave off a militant takeover, without American military backing, but we wouldn't want to bet on it.

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In some cases, Ms. Ebron has been able to stave off eviction with the help of the Neediest Cases.

Staff members were able to stave off an evacuation, which had risks, by working around the clock to pump water out of basements and get emergency generators running.

Nor have the police or security forces, even when they are assigned to patrol areas with a vulnerable community, been able to stave off the attacks.

Let us hope that our neighbors across the Atlantic are able to stave off cuts to this "great democratic space," as Pullman so eloquently describes it.

In Time Warner's case, Carl C. Icahn, the billionaire activist investor, pressed for a quick breakup of the company, something Mr. Parsons was able to stave off.