Sentence examples for measures to stave from inspiring English sources

Many arts organizations have relied on one-time rescue measures to stave off deficits.

The European Union has announced its own safeguard measures to stave off cheap steel diverted from the United States market by the American tariffs.

THREE months ago the British government led the world with its emergency measures to stave off a wholesale collapse of the financial system.

The books discussed by Kolbert, in spite of their triviality, serve a useful purpose: they make it clear that most of the measures to stave off environmental collapse that are being pressed on us will turn out to be ineffective.

The US government hit its $14.3 trillion debt ceiling on Monday, triggering a series of "extraordinary measures" to stave off a default while politicians argue over raising the borrowing limit.

C1 Allegheny Near Bankruptcy Allegheny Energy, an important supplier of electricity and natural gas service in five states, is considering several measures to stave off a bankruptcy filing, including a sale of assets to raise cash.

Wasn't QE meant to be an emergency measure to stave off an economic depression?

It is a risky stop-gap measure to stave off poverty with the potential to break free from it.

It also said that she could not be trusted because she had been convicted for using false papers to work – despite it being a desperate measure to stave off destitution after her asylum case was rejected.

Not only are the Bush tax cuts expiring, but Congress has yet to renew dozens of routine tax breaks for businesses that expired last year, or pass a measure to stave off expansion of the alternative minimum tax into the middle class, another usually routine measure.

This effort to stabilize the markets is not just an exercise in political ideology, but a critical and responsible measure to stave off serious fiscal trouble.