Sentence examples similar to staving off breakdown from inspiring English sources

It offered me the chance to incorporate those practices into my everyday life, staving off another breakdown.

TITLE: Staving Off: Is music leaving theory behind?

"So just staving off a nervous breakdown has been the main thing for me".

Kathleen DeMeo, a spokeswoman for the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, said that "the need to stave off physical breakdown is very real" for all kinds of arts institutions.

That declaration staved off a breakdown of the treaty that, had it occurred, would have led several countries to consider developing nuclear weapons -- the realization of President Kennedy's fear.

Deflation was staved off and tentative recoveries took hold.

Not all schools stave off formal reading instruction in kindergarten.

They will only stave off the inevitable.

Staving off dotage is not cheap.

I suppose he was staving off loneliness.

ENTERTAINMENT Living alone often means staving off loneliness, and staving off loneliness usually means electronics.