Sentence examples for stave off attacks from inspiring English sources

Many shouted demands for government protection, while voicing skepticism about whether Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government could stave off attacks.

Both unionists and Irish nationalist parties used this popular mandate to stave off attacks on their legitimacy.

For years, gout patients were told they had to follow a purine-restricted diet to stave off attacks, but those diets weren't very effective and people had a difficult time sticking to them.

Misurata continued to try to stave off attacks Thursday by Gaddafi's forces as they pummeled the only rebel-held city in western Libya with artillery fire, rockets, mortars and bullets.

What would you do to survive?" Inevitably, many of the answers involve heading to the kind of places that might ensure one has sufficient weapons and supplies to stave off attacks.

The decision to go after the Pentagon budget, even while troops remain locked in combat overseas, is the clearest indication yet that President Obama will be cutting spending broadly across the government as he seeks to reduce the deficit — and stave off attacks from Republicans in Congress who want to shrink the government even more.

Meanwhile, the Dutch navy, under Admiral M.A. de Ruyter, managed to stave off attacking English and French fleets in battles off Sole Bay in 1672 and off Ostend and Kijkduin in 1673, each time frustrating an invasion of the republic.

Lorry drivers' organisations concede that they sometimes slip hefty bribes to militants as a means of staving off attacks.

Temür staved off attacks from disputants to the throne on the northwestern border of China and put down rebellions in Korea and South China.

These included Prince Buster, a former boxer who staved off attacks from rival sound systems before striking out on his own in 1957, and Lee Scratch Perryry, who began working for Dodd as a vocalist, talent scout and general dogsbody in 1961.

Brent Gamit, 101 Singer, Empire Supporters Club, New York: On Saturday morning, I was worried that we may get our first loss at RBA, since so many important players were missing the match and weren't due back for a couple of weeks That being said, I was quite surprised that our young defense and goalkeeper managed to stave off the New England attack.