Sentence examples for help head off from inspiring English sources

Some experts believe iodine can help head off long-term effects of radiation exposure, including thyroid cancer.

It has rightly begun to look at ways it can help head off crises before they start.

It's true that more tax cuts this year could help head off a recession in the short run.

But there was no consensus on what to do to help head off the looming court battle.

A16 Representative Dick Armey called for a rapid reduction in income tax rates to help head off a recession.

That, in turn, will help head off surging food prices - the major factor in the country's recent inflation scares.

Mr. Trichet orchestrated a $139 billion injection that analysts say helped head off a calamitous seizing up of the market.

But the general consensus is that they reduced interest rates, helped head off the threat of deflation, and gave a small but significant boost to economic growth.

"It's almost hard to measure the ramifications that would emanate from such an action," said Olympia J. Snowe, a former Republican senator from Maine who helped head off an earlier showdown over judicial nominees.

The centrist council, based in Washington, helped head off a bruising television war in New Hampshire by running commercials there warning Steve Forbes not to engage in the type of negative advertising that he had in 1996 against Bob Dole.

Last year during Thanksgiving week, the president allowed commercial flights to fly in two East Coast corridors normally reserved for military aircraft, a decision that helped head off some of the delays that had plagued travelers in past years.