And the takeaway food has even been credited with promoting industrialisation and staving off revolution.
The Bush Administration had one major success: it succeeded in staving off another terrorist attack in America.
Northern beach resorts like Okumatsushima were all but destroyed by the March tsunami, staving off domestic tourism as well.
Kent still require another 300 and their only hope of staving off defeat appears more bad weather.
Broadly speaking, the genes less active in the lonely were those involved in staving off viral infections.
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But woe betide the country if ever-more-draconian measures became Mr Putin's only way of staving off ever-growing public discontent.
The Reserve (central) Bank of India is credited with staving off most ill-effects of the Global Financial Crisis with its hyperconservative regulation.
It was my way of minimizing the painful lump in my throat, staving off the embarrassing boo-hoos I thought were best left unexpressed.
The hope is that guidelines will make private equity more attractive to investors as well as staving off the possibility of external oversight.
By relinquishing the Jordan Valley Israel would effectively be committing national suicide by inviting an invasion it would be incapable of staving off.
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.
The administration has tried to push forward on other fronts, notably free trade and the Doha development round, staving off congressional protectionism towards China and promoting Social Security reform.
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.
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Yet it was only after the 1979 siege that the al-Saud began promoting radical Islam at home and abroad as a way of staving off challenges to their own legitimacy.
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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.
By putting them on the defensive, Israel will force them to devote time to staving off Israeli attacks and so have less time available for initiating new assaults against Israel.
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.
He has rejected pressure to end the state of emergency he instituted last weekend that resulted in suspending the nation's constitution, shutting down media, placing Bhutto under house arrest, and staving off other opposition groups.
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.
If anything, suppressing warranted alarms about the threat posed to Western civilization by shariah, and hampering legal activities aimed at staving off that menace, would simply play into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood and their enablers.
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.
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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.
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.
For eight years, the US's chosen methods for staving off the threats have effectively served as little more than holding actions because Pakistan's governments have been both unable and unwilling to wage successful military or political campaigns against the Taliban and al-Qaida.
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.
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.
After all, the best that can be hoped for is that the President will not get such approval since, if it were granted, Iraq would almost certainly agree to admit inspectors -- then proceed to diddle them as it had before, staving off U.S. action while buying further time for Baghdad's acquisition of atomic or nuclear weapons.
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