Sentence examples for try to head off from inspiring English sources

Senator John Kerry has proposed a bill to try to head off future blackouts.

Start with that jam-proof technology: What the 79Ci does is try to head off a jam before it happens.

"I would not be surprised if they try to head off the criticism by returning capital," he said.

American advertising groups have moved to try to head off restrictions by proposing a self-regulatory code for the practice.

Each episode has chronicled another hour of those 24 as Jack Bauer and the president try to head off apocalypse.

He said he had intervened now to try to head off the dire projections in a similar assessment completed in the fall.

Cash-rich Arab states like Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have also offered billions, as well as increasing their own spending to try to head off domestic unrest.

The vice president, Mohamed ElBaradei, made his statement as international mediators met here to try to head off further destabilizing violence.

It took that step, which keeps the lights and air conditioners on but with a little less hum, to try to head off equipment failures.

Next week the Prime Minister and his deputy will try to head off another split, on an issue which deeply divides their parties – Europe.

He said the Pentagon was "beginning a process of aggressive management" to try to head off some of the worst problems.