Sentence examples for managed to head off from inspiring English sources

Yet no one managed to head off the violence.

With those concessions, he has managed to head off a crisis.

In the vast majority of cases, Mr. Schumer and Mr. Emanuel, through some behind-the-scenes combination of cajoling and bullying, managed to head off divisive primaries, despite carping from the party's more liberal base.

It did not go unmentioned that, on the same day the royal charter was unveiled in London, journalists in Burma managed to head off plans to lock many of the country's old restrictions back in place.

He said that it was successful in that it managed to head off Enron's efforts to have a broadly worded exemption written into the law "that companies could have then driven trucks through".

For a total of slightly more than $200, I managed to head off fraternal bickering on two coast-to-coast flights and drives from Los Angeles to San Diego and back.

He raises the alarm, and the staff manage to head off the other children – all but one, Simon's friend Alice (Sophie Nélisse), who also steals a glimpse at the body.

Part II: Kedrosky on why Obama gets a C+/B- for managing the economic crisis and what he's now got to do to head off a calamity.

Mick McCarthy's men finally thought the pressure had paid off when defender Mings nodded Paul Anderson's corner goalwards, but Cummings managed to head the ball off the line and onto the crossbar before it was cleared to make sure Reading claimed all three points.

While Powell did well to beat Rudd to a long ball forward, Jack King managed to head his effort off the goalline.

After watching almost three hours of last night's late eighteenth century pageant, I am convinced McCullough was onto something, even though he didn't manage to head it off for the adaptation of his book.