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Example sentences for: stave

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To stave off disastrous currency devaluation, the Russian government is tripling interest rates, spending reserves, and exhorting Russian tycoons to invest their money in Russian markets to restore foreign investors' confidence.
Jordan's King Hussein has gone home to die . He left the Mayo Clinic after his body rejected a bone marrow transplant (to stave off cancer) and his organs began to fail.
The New York Times , Los Angeles Times , and Washington Post each lead with the latest development in the White House's attempt to stave off a Senate defeat of the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty--President Clinton's submission of a letter to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott asking him to postpone his planned floor vote on the treaty.
It has been mocked as a meaningless gesture to stave off eager applicants and assuage the Russians.
Taking account of the latest vote announcements, the NYT and the WP both calculate that to stave off impeachment, Clinton would need to win over nearly all of the undecided House Republicans.