Sentence examples for try and head off from inspiring English sources

That has lead them to prescribe "uppers" to try and head off any more serious symptoms.

We know that there is a serious threat to our economy, and we know that we must take action to try and head off a serious blow to Main Street".

Labor's left caucus has convened a special meeting to try and head off a bout of vicious infighting that has erupted publicly in the wake of Bill Shorten's decision to back controversial lawyer Kimberley Kitching for a Victorian Senate vacancy.

Guardian Australia reported on Monday that the left caucus convened a special meeting to try and head off a damaging bout of infighting in Victoria, and a deputation from the left has asked Shorten to intervene to ensure the current ill feeling doesn't escalate.

"I've personally spoken to one bar manager in Newtown recently, he basically said, we've brought this in to try and head off a one o'clock lockout that's forced on them".

Sub-regional financial structures are developing as well: ASEAN has created a surveillance mechanism to try to anticipate and head off future crises, using sophisticated early-warning indicators, and the North-East Asian countries are jointly keeping an eye on short-term capital movements in the vicinity.

When they refused, I drew myself up straight and headed off, trying to reclaim my dignity.

This takes events into rather more horror-movie territory – you immediately think of the phone-wielding nasty in Scream – as Moon alternates between barricading himself into his trailer and heading off to try to disappear from view.

The official said the general's mission would be to address "the whole question of counterterrorism and how we try to head off and defeat the threat before they're ever successful here at home".

The move is widely being interpreted as a way for Sudan to improve its image abroad and try to head off the possible genocide prosecution of the country's president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, in the International Criminal Court.

In that case, Afghan officials were slow to try to head off violence, and American officials later said they were concerned and angered by the delay.