Its prohibitively low prices warded off competition.
A useful construction material is produced while some waste materials causing environmental problems are warded off.
Cows warded off the chill of winter.
These factors have suppressed Facebook's share price and warded off investors.
Therefore, it warded off all other forms of taxation.
But sarcopenia can be warded off.
With the hottest days of summer fast approaching, Shanghai is making preparations to seed clouds over the city to make it rain, in the hope that a couple of degrees of reduced temperatures will help ward off brownouts, or worse, here in China's commercial capital.
David used to do this thing of saying, 'Oh we have to go to so-and-so's dinner.' I'd say, 'Why do we have to go?' He'd say, 'Well, they'll be hurt if we don't.' Well, I'm not hurt if they don't come here, so why should they be hurt?" Now that he's no longer here to ward off diplomatic incidents, Barber steers clear of dinner parties.
For instance, Shikata explained, while the air force here can ward off intruders from overseas, it does not have the authority to shoot down planes once they are inside Japan's borders.
After struggling in the final hours of the campaign here to ward off attacks from rivals portraying him as an elitist who killed jobs during his high-flying days at a corporate takeover firm, he warned them not to play into President Obama's hands by trying to destroy his candidacy.
Truckloads of Kamajors, a militia that is allied with the government and is made up of young men who wear charms that they believe will ward off bullets, passed by the checkpoint here.
