The world community mustered the strength to stave off the nuclear danger.

Even China s vast reserves will not be enough to stave off a painful devaluation.

We know that such empowerment of women helps stave off extremist thought and action.

Turns out doing crossword puzzles can stave off some of the effects of Alzheimer's.

Engaging Iran is also the only way to stave off a nuclear apocalypse in the region.

His efforts were not a complete success, but he managed to stave off the worst outcome.

A whale can stave in the ribs of the biggest ships, swallow whole crews, pick its teeth with the oars.

But, in order to stave off the threat of deflation and depression, it is targeting a lower unemployment rate, below 6.5 .

They tend to walk, the only proven way to stave off cognitive decline, and they all tend to have a garden.

Preventing the temperature increases that scientists tell us must be avoided to stave off catastrophe requires meaningful measures by key developing countries.

David Cameron is trying to work out whether to cut more public sector jobs in order to stave off a double dip recession.

The combination of credits from the other eurozone countries and lending by the IMF may provide enough liquidity to stave off default for a while.

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A barrel is made of staves, and like water filling a barrel, growth can go no further than the lowest stave, or the most limited essential resource.

At the other end of the life span, the best thing you and I can do to stave off dementia as we age is to be bilingual.

At Number 10 Downing Street, David Cameron is trying to work out whether to cut more public sector jobs in order to stave off a double dip recession.

Faced with a vicious combination of collapsing housing prices and imploding credit markets, the Fed has been aggressively cutting interest rates to try to stave off a recession.

India s ability to stave off the economic gales was helped by the fact that it is much less dependent than most countries on global flows of trade and capital.

Indeed, the Fed s monetary policy has not been sufficient to stave off a US recession, albeit one that remains so mild that many doubt whether it qualifies as the real animal.

At a time when strong, coordinated action is needed to stave off financial collapse in the European Union, the popular support that drove European integration over the last six decades is waning.

When they do do intentional physical activity, it's the things they enjoy. They tend to walk, the only proven way to stave off cognitive decline, and they all tend to have a garden.

It is vital that alternative income generating sources be generated to stave off relocations and the creation of internally displaced persons, and to ensure the success and sustainability of the opium reduction programme.

If my family, though, had been the kind of people to believe in therapy, they probably would have diagnosed me as something like gender dysmorphic and put me on hormones to stave off puberty.

China s government is divided on a number of matters, but there is a strong, sharp edged consensus that social stability is at risk unless a robust stimulus package emerges to stave off further job loss.

Despite a huge investment of time and energy, he has failed to marshal even his own troops in support of a relatively modest proposal to stave off collapse of the nation s old age insurance program.

In order to stave off job losses and sustain economic growth, China stimulated domestic demand by unleashing a wave of credit fueled construction. As commodity imports soared, the current account surplus fell below 2 of GDP.

It is deeply regrettable and disturbing that the Government of Croatia, in an apparent effort to stave off condemnation and evade responsibility for the Croatian offensive in central Bosnia has tried to put the blame on the Serbian side.

DUBLIN Europe s needs and Europeans desires are at odds. At a time when strong, coordinated action is needed to stave off financial collapse in the European Union, the popular support that drove European integration over the last six decades is waning.

While recourse to the ICJ very often makes it possible to resolve peacefully differences among States and to dispel tensions and stave off the spectre of war, failure to implement its judgments can have serious consequences for international peace and security.

The current government in Ukraine has an unprecedented electoral mandate for change. It has also drawn into public service some of the country s best and brightest (including from the Ukrainian diaspora) to fight a war and stave off an economic meltdown simultaneously.

When Cuba s lavish Soviet subsidies vanished in the early 1990 s, it was Raúl who recognized that the regime s survival required economic reforms, pressing to allow private agricultural markets to reopen in order to boost food production and stave off possible starvation.

In a vain effort to stave off infection, the Italian speaking port city of Ragusa, in what is now Croatia, mandated that ships arriving from Plague infested areas remain isolated on the water until it was deemed likely that they weren't carrying a disease.

Fifth if it is agreed to lift the arms embargo, the mandate of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) should be amended, on the one hand, and, on the other, the areas wherein it is deployed should be changed accordingly, in order to ensure its neutrality and stave off any possible danger that may threaten its personnel.