H.P.'s move appears aimed at heading off potential challenges as it seeks to transform itself into a technology services provider.
As with fostering an environment of innovation and creating an atmosphere of respect, these top companies also find communication key for heading off these challenges.
Late amendments to the charter may have been designed to head off legal challenges.
In an apparent effort to head off legal challenges, it elected the head of Egypt's judiciary, Hussam El Ghuriany, as its chief.
Cevik Bir, the founding officer of an army unit established to head off Islamic challenges to the secular state, was taken into custody in Istanbul on Thursday.
To head off potential challenges, a complex web of talks took place in conference calls over the weekend as various combinations of interested parties discussed potential deals.
A good chunk of this spending is required by the regulators, but the oil firms have gone beyond that, hoping to head off legal challenges from Inuit hunters and greens.Such suits have already played a part in holding up Shell's plans by several years, at enormous cost.
Supporters plead that the prime minister is tacking right only to head off leadership challenges from even less palatable parts of his party (on April 2nd Mahathir Mohamad, an influential former prime minister, renewed his call for Mr Najib to step down).
When it comes to efforts by the White House (and Senator Charles E. Schumer) to head off Democratic challenges to Ms. Gillibrand, the question for some boils down to whether a senator who was appointed -- by an unelected governor, no less -- deserves a free pass to the November election.
