Sentence examples for heading off moves from inspiring English sources

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Instead, they made other changes in hopes of heading off moves by regulators.

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You take the juicer head off, move it to the sink, and uncouple all of the pieces.

A1 The White House persuaded House Republicans to put off a vote of support for Israel and was working to head off Congressional moves to give Israel a swift infusion of aid.

But he may also wish to head off any moves toward what he might consider a risky political liberalization, or any questioning of the violent 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square or his campaign to crush the Falun Gong spiritual movement.

The beekeepers executive is trying to head off the move by inserting its own motion ahead of the Twickenham and Thames Valley one, which asks delegates to support them in the way in which it "should manage its intellectual property".

The sudden move prompted speculation that Lloyds was trying to head off a move by the EU, which the bank had already warned could demand drastic sell-offs of parts of its operations to counter concerns about anti-competitiveness.

It also wants to head off any move to change the system under which it remains a US perogative to choose the president of the bank.

Ed Miliband was forced to try to head off a move to oust him yesterday by Labour backbenchers who fear the party is heading for defeat at next May's general election.

In a presidential decree that was issued Tuesday, Mr. Fox, left, urged the legislators to act quickly to head off any move by the United States to take trade reprisals against his nation.

The National Academy of Sciences has apparently yesterday headed off a move by the Bush administration that could have revamped the financing and management of the nation's astronomy research, issuing a report saying that the changes would "seriously weaken the intellectual roots of the discipline" and that they should not be adopted.

And it has culminated in Oklahoma's attempt to head off a move to impose sharia by the state's Muslims (who make up less than 1percentt of the population).

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