Sentence examples for was staved off from inspiring English sources

Deflation was staved off and tentative recoveries took hold.

After frantic calls, he got the federal authorities to keep the banks open until 4 p.m. Bankruptcy was staved off -- at least temporarily.

That this would change was inevitable but the loss of innocence which comes with the arrival of maturity was staved off by the many diversions which each new day brought.

As the prime minister himself said, having spent years trying to shoehorn the right into a single party, a split within it is the last thing he wants.The threatened revolt was staved off by a promise to unfreeze €4 billion ($5.7 billion) in funding for Sicily.

Meanwhile, a plan to reduce the state parks budget by about $6 million, to $422.5 million, through the closing of 100 parks was staved off with maintenance cuts to parks instead, and state officials say more cuts to that department will almost certainly be in the offing next year.

In 1798 he had forecast a population crash, based on the calculation that it was impossible to improve wheat yields as fast as people made babies (each new baby can make more babies; each new field of grain leaves less new land to cultivate).The Malthusian crash was staved off in the 19th century by bringing more land under the plough in North America, Argentina and Australia especially.

I suppose he was staving off loneliness.

Intestinal surgery came in between, all as he was staving off nuclear war and realigning Southeast Asia.

The damage couldn't be staved off or repaired.

That crisis, she says, can be staved off with technology.

As a result, Alzheimer's can be staved off or averted.