1. I will do my best to stave off his participation.

2. A couple of teenagers were trying to stave in our shed door.

3. In a desperate attempt to stave off defeat, he reluctantly promised wholesale reform of the constitution.

4. She brought some fruit on the journey to stave off hunger .

5. We were hoping to stave off these difficult decisions until September.

6. The company managed to stave off bankruptcy for another few months.

7. This was originally a stave church.

8. Two independent voices can be placed on each stave.

9. There was always the real ale to stave off the effects of ageing for a while.

10. The stave is budded and sports a few leaves as in some versions of the tarot.

11. These were noises to stave off the silence into which misery might seep, noises to throw against the hardness of life.

12. I touch the tip of the stave to the centre of her forehead.

13. The city has been just as quick to stave off potential security problems at its rock-walled transit center.

14. Bank makes last effort to stave off interest rise. 11.00am: Pound at 2.7790.

15. Though Saskia musters all her forces to stave off adolescence, hormones are against her.

16. To stave off the pangs and cool the tongue, tapas are eaten and La Ina is drunk.

17. This could help stave off a damaging rise in interest rates.

18. It is a large stave church with later transepts and spire.

19. Mr Gusinsky is seeking foreign investors to stave off Gazprom's grab.

20. But the reality of discovery was a different matter,[] and he did all he could to stave it off.

21. Nicklaus, who was paired with Floyd, also putted fairly well, holing six birdies to stave off two bogeys.

22. Somehow, we drew strength from each other, enough to stave off death for a little while longer.

23. Parts of the grandiose Stalin-era building were sold to casino owners to raise money to stave off closure.

24. I kept incredulously ordering more drinks, in a doomed bid to stave off this conclusion.

25. The mouse allows you to click the notes into position on the stave and saves a lot of keying time.

26. Even if the company wins the order, however, it will be too late to stave off 300 redundancies.

27. Mr Karimov knows that he will stand or fall on his ability to stave off economic collapse.

28. Otton hitched on to this ride and had so much fun that he managed to stave off the customary platoon with Kyle Wachholtz.

29. Whitehall had no idea where to find the professionals who would stave off the imminent cultural vandalism of television.

30. And how many more will the Pentagon sacrifice to stave off further criticism of its gender policies?

1. I will do my best to stave off his participation.

2. A couple of teenagers were trying to stave in our shed door.

3. In a desperate attempt to stave off defeat, he reluctantly promised wholesale reform of the constitution.

31. The manager can manipulate some things to stave that off, but pop music is about being popular.

32. Some people carry a ten dollar bill, to keep the potential mugger happy and stave off an angry attack.

33. His ambition was to eat as little as possible, and in this way to stave off his hunger.

34. They are constantly changing their numbers, or going ex-directory to stave off threatening calls.

35. She wandered all over the stave and produced a curious counterpoint to the tune.

36. Its part is written a perfect fifth higher than it plays and as long as its notes are on the stave it sounds well.

37. The catch was welcome, but more to vary our diet than stave off hunger.

38. Media support organisations and Western governments have helped stave off the worst.

39. The two-year subsidy is intended to stave off colliery closures until after the general election.

40. The longer you stave that off, the less time you will spend building fatigue toxins.

41. Panic and anger both are rising in me, but I try to stave them off.

42. The question humankind must ask is whether the balancing act the president suggests is enough to stave off global devastation.

43. To cope with this, the manager has to try and stave off time pressures without losing the momentum of gaining popularity.

44. Maybe IGF-I supplement can stave off amyotrophy and caducity.

45. I saw a pink rice cooker, flow lines and colors is very romantic, I bought it, while not worthless, but they can stave off hunger for my love cold.

46. "Whereas time sweeps away whatever dreams, only the dream of the sea..." Those shining on the "stave" of the steel pole and the dotted "musical notes" combine to present an eternal melody.

47. Ledger lines or leger lines are short horizontal lines used to indicate notes that lie above or below the stave.

48. The lixiviating rate of polyphenols by oak stave steeping was the fastest at the beginning.

49. He thought of riding a camel to conserve his strength and stave off hunger.

50. You have had to write checks to stave off the ever - insistent clains of your creditors.

51. The movable water - cooled skimmer was designed according to the work principle of BF cooling stave.

52. According to large longitudinal studies, two to four perk-me-ups a day may stave off normal cognitive decline and decrease the incidence of Alzheimer's by 30 to 60 percent.

53. Practice proves that monitoring of blast furnace wall with copper stave is necessary. Realization idea of the monitoring method is presented.

54. The calculation results show that the formation of the protection shell can be achieved by optimizing the parameters for designing the stave and the hearth bottom.

55. I called, and found out that Big Tony was a washed-up ex-con, afraid of crowds and taking pills the size of pen caps to stave off drug-induced schizophrenic episodes.

56. Or you can use a drawknife to strip the bark and sapwood from each stave (what the bugs love), and seal the back with several coats of shellac.

57. The influences of two factors including thickness of scale of cooling water-pipe and air clearance exerting on temperature field of stave is discussed based on calculation.

58. A calculation model of the coefficient of heat transfer between gas and stave body and inlaid refractory is built based on the substitution method of boundary condition.

59. The cooling structure combined cooling plate and cooling stave and the ceramic cup hearth structure can meet the need of prolonging campaign life of BFs at Meishan Co.

60. The calculation models of the heat transfer coefficient between the blast furnace gas flow and the heat surface of stave are established based on the substitution method of boundary condition.

61. In addition, the research method of this paper is quoteworthy for research on cooling stave.

62. Drinking a glass of water after every alcoholic beverage helps stave off drunkenness.

63. Result indicates that Sodium dehydroacetate and Calcium propionate can effectively stave mildew of bread, the more dosage is, the more effect is.

64. The novel on-line supervision technique of water temperature difference and thermal current intensity of blast furnace cooling stave based on CAN Bus is introduced.

65. Water rationing was implemented in order to stave off a water shortage.

66. One bordello, hoping to stave off falling demand in the economic crisis, has begun offering discounts to customers who pedal bicycles to the door.

67. High - yielding varieties , along with subsidized fertilizer and irrigation, have helped India stave off famine for decades.

68. In the melt deoxidize craftwork of iron-bath type, the superfluous foam can send the slag overflow the stave and destroy stably operate.

69. The two boys, young and unlettered, lingered only long enough to earn sufficient money to stave off hunger and to continue what must have seemed an endless journey.

70. The blast furnace bottom adopted high density fire-clay bricks, water cooling device, pure copper cooling stave and Ukrainian large-scale cooling modules.

71. You have had to write checks to stave off the ever - insistent claims of your creditors.

72. Two aspects realizing the self-protect ability of a blast furnace cooling system with copper stave, adherent dross capability and adherent dross condition, were mainly discussed.