• The Bush Administration had one major success: it succeeded in staving off another terrorist attack in America.

    NEWYORKER: Coming Apart

  • Northern beach resorts like Okumatsushima were all but destroyed by the March tsunami, staving off domestic tourism as well.

    BBC: Cherry blossom festivals amid tragedy

  • Kent still require another 300 and their only hope of staving off defeat appears more bad weather.

    BBC: In-form Somerset nearing Kent win

  • Broadly speaking, the genes less active in the lonely were those involved in staving off viral infections.

    ECONOMIST: The reason loneliness could be bad for your health

  • The Reserve (central) Bank of India is credited with staving off most ill-effects of the Global Financial Crisis with its hyperconservative regulation.

    FORBES: Asian Banking and Short Memories

  • It was my way of minimizing the painful lump in my throat, staving off the embarrassing boo-hoos I thought were best left unexpressed.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • The hope is that guidelines will make private equity more attractive to investors as well as staving off the possibility of external oversight.

    ECONOMIST: Private equity

  • The only thing that really counts for the EU on the finance front is staving off a bank-induced meltdown 2.0, and their upcoming funding windows for national deficit financing.

    FORBES: Lukewarm Reception For FTT At E.U. Meeting

  • Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said in a press conference yesterday that the U.S. economy is facing a hurdle with a weak housing market and still-high unemployment staving off growth.

    FORBES: New Home Sales Fall Softer Than Expected, Home Stocks Up On Earnings

  • Top Republicans on the House and Senate Armed Services committees released their own approach for temporarily staving off the brunt of those cuts by cutting some federal jobs through attrition.

    CNN: Military pay in play in game of political poker

  • But AOL is caught in a pincer movement: It must roll out broadband access rapidly (only 550, 000 Time Warner homes now have it) while staving off price erosion in its core narrowband business.

    FORBES: Free For All

  • The three Senators spoke of the urgent need to address today's and tomorrow's national security shortfalls and threats by, among other things, staving off the devastating "sequestration" round of cuts to Pentagon budgets now in the offing.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Malone spent four years staving off foreclosure.

    FORBES: Taking Liberty

  • President Bush and the Act's many supporters on Capitol Hill deserve great credit for staying the course, for articulating forcefully the case for reauthorization and for staving off demands for changes that would have grievously weakened its protections.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Coalition salutes Congress for reenacting Patriot Act

  • The Bank of England left rates unchanged this month, but with fears growing that economic expansion will fall short of expectations, it may soon have to choose between fighting inflation and staving off Britain's first recession in over a decade.

    ECONOMIST: Reluctant party-poopers | The

  • There was one problem: the government kept putting off requests for bids, in part because the main Humvee manufacturer, a large corporation in Indiana called AM General, appeared to have enough clout in Congress to get the process delayed, staving off competition.

    NEWYORKER: Coming Apart

  • They cite a flurry of intriguing, if preliminary, epidemiological and lab studies hinting that vitamin D may play a role in staving off a wide range of diseases, including colon cancer, infections, multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune ailments and possibly even heart disease.

    FORBES: D Is for Debate

  • The studies warn that even if radical solutions are found to reduce emissions from this sector, governments will still need to tackle housing and transport if they are to make the cuts deemed necessary by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to have a good chance of staving off serious climate change.

    BBC: Savings needed to meet future demand for resources

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