Not all schools stave off formal reading instruction in kindergarten.
They will only stave off the inevitable.
The United States has assumed an unspoken role as indefinite occupier, with just enough troops to stave off Afghanistan's implosion but not enough to make that implosion any less inevitable.
She said her business was busier than ever advising law firms trying to avoid collapse, adding that there had recently been a number of desperate "last-ditch efforts" at mergers intended to stave off law firm implosions.
A furious South Korean government has accused the envoy of being "biased" and ill-informed.South Korea touts Kaesong as a model of co-operation and reconciliation, benefiting South Korean manufacturing and staving off the implosion of the North's economy.
Rather than staving off defaults in Asia, Mr Paulson, today's treasury secretary, and Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, are battling to prevent the implosion of their own financial system.
Deflation was staved off and tentative recoveries took hold.
St. John's also staved off the inevitable.
Sweden is trying to stave off deflation.
It also helps stave off mental decline.
