If the offensive line is warding off defensive linemen and accounting for blitzing linebackers and defensive backs, the quarterback's clock will tick slowly.
The rise of craft beer and a preference among younger drinkers for wine and spirits means Bud is warding off falling volumes.
And, obviously, that has to be warded off completely".
It creates enormous opportunities for disease, which tends to be warded off by inappropriate use of antibiotics.
Just nine days ago — Thursday, Sept. 18 — financial Armageddon was warded off when word began to leak about the government's giant bailout plan.
The disease nearly always kills humans after the development of symptoms, though it can be warded off by a series of injections.
(Unlike errant husbands, however, raccoons may be warded off by installing a sprinkler with an optic sensor; see Mr. Bogue's Raccoon Fact Sheet, available free to readers).
Whether at work, working out, watching a movie, or just about anything else, it's as if there's been an epidemic of dehydration that can only be warded off by constant access to water.
Now that the Greek crisis seems to have been warded off and Portugal and Spain are more or less covered by a European rescue mechanism, it would seem that Europe can be relieved again.
The threat of injury, in particular, hovers over the action like a devil to be warded off; yet, its legal consequences (as, for instance, regarding insurance and the voiding of contracts) aren't addressed.
Spanish police were called to the embassy in the middle of the raid, but were warded off by the Mexican citizen Adrian Hong Chang who pretended to be a diplomat, the Spanish newspaper El País reported.
