Sentence examples for time to stave from inspiring English sources

Neither of these steps, however, would come in time to stave off an assault by Colonel Qaddafi's forces on Benghazi.

During an accident, she said, operators hope they can buy "coping time" to stave off the release of hydrogen from the channels.

Only Dr. Mirkov's newly fine-tuned trees with the spinach gene, Mr. Kress and Mr. Irey agreed, could be ready in time to stave off what many believed would soon be a steep decline in the harvest.

I doubt whether this action has come in time to stave off a painful recession, but at least the policy response, here and elsewhere, is finally becoming commensurate with the scale of the global problem.

It was the picture of a cricketer attempting to retain a sense of normality in the hope that the old, familiar routines of century compilation will somehow be restored to him, in time to stave off the ignominy of becoming the first Australian since the 19th century to have lost four Ashes series.

Cornelius is the buoyant center of attention, striving to put the best face on a worsening situation, hoping that Bob Murrison, his savvy partner, on an emergency tour of clients in the Midlands, will return with a miracle in time to stave off the creditors.

Set within the designer Alex Marker's art deco saloon bar, Louise Hill's staging has to struggle at times to stave off camp, not least in the character of the defiantly snobbish Mrs. Cliveden-Banks (Carmen Rodriguez), a societal grandee who sports the hyphen in her surname like some unassailable badge of honor.

DAKAR / GENEVA, 16 March 2012 - UNICEF is warning that there is little time left to stave off a disaster facing more than a million children aged below five in the Sahel region of Africa.

A surging economy has prompted the Federal Reserve to increase interest rates six times since 1999 to stave off inflation.

The Democratic-sponsored proposal to raise the rate in Milwaukee to $11.32, the amount necessary for a full-time worker to stave off poverty for a family of four, did pass. .

A number of lighting advances have arrived in time to help stave off late-winter gloom.