Sentence examples for staving off disaster from inspiring English sources

The best of Brodeur's saves have come in staving off disaster these past two games, breakaways stuffed with deft poke checks or pucks kicked away by pads thrown high in the air.

We continue to bet only on staving off disaster.

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.

After 34... Rc5 35 Qc5 Qb2 36 Qc8! Rf8 37 Nc6, threatening 38 Qf8 Kf8 39 b8/Q, Morozevich could not stave off disaster.

Only remittances from Pakistanis working abroad have staved off disaster.

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.

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

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