The group helped stave off her eviction and began working with her on securing a new job.
They offer her slices of bread, but can't stave off her hunger: "You've got to die or else we'll waste away," she tells them.
Many of her supporters have promised to take to the streets in an effort to stave off her removal from office.
What we said: An opaque compendium of stories – like the ones Scheherazade told to stave off her own death – all responding in indirect ways to the miseries forced on Portugal by austerity.
Volume 1, entitled The Restless One, is an opaque compendium of stories – like the ones Scheherazade told to stave off her own death – all responding in indirect ways to the miseries forced on Portugal by austerity, as if by a social-realist Buñuel with a bit of the novelist José Saramago's existential musing; the same kind of absurdism and deadly serious political scepticism.
He did his best to stave off her advances.
At the age of 53, Willard learned to ride a bicycle, upon doctor's orders that she exercise outdoors to stave off her pernicious anemia.
With Ms. Rousseff's hopes dimming of staving off her ouster, Mr. da Silva, who rose to prominence as a labor leader, has been attacking the scandal-plagued government of the interim president, Michel Temer, which is shifting policy to the right by announcing plans to privatize public companies and overhaul the public pension system.
Courtney Hunt, the writer and director of 2008's "Frozen River," remembers the indignant reaction of a wealthy potential investor after he'd read her screenplay about a heroine who becomes a smuggler to stave off having her trailer home repossessed.
A geriatrician who diagnosed Alzheimer's disease in Mrs. Astor in 2000 testified in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Tuesday that her household staff — maids, nurses, chauffeurs, cooks and more — helped her stave off the early consequences of the disease better than the average person.
