Sentence examples for stave off disaster from inspiring English sources

Billions are secretly showered on troubled financial institutions to stave off disaster.

To stave off disaster, the miners propitiate the mountain deities with tiny liquor bottles.

So the donors keep the trickle of humanitarian supplies coming, just enough to stave off disaster.

It is a serious challenge to stave off disaster without real leadership.

The following August, Castro announced his plan to stave off disaster, the Special Period in Time of Peace.

In the crisis, they always did just enough to stave off disaster, but not enough to avert deflation and stagnation.

If confidence and credit continue to dry up, a near-certain recession will become a depression, a calamity for everybody.Even if it staves off disaster, the bail-out will cause huge problems.

Last minute relief isn't a perfect solution, but it temporarily staved off disaster for Hodgson and Trull.

Only remittances from Pakistanis working abroad have staved off disaster.

The Belgian might have staved off disaster by improvising another plan.

THESE days the fact that Congress has staved off disaster for a few weeks passes as good news.