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Example sentences for: stave

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This is an attempt to resolve the scandal over whether the banks ingratiated themselves to the Nazis and stole deposits made by Holocaust victims . Commentators agree that the Swiss haven't really repented and are just trying to restore their trustworthy-banker reputation and stave off a boycott organized by Jewish groups.
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.
Each economic superhero has a distinct personality and style--Greenspan is the shaman, Rubin the Midas figure, and Summers the academic--but together, they stave off worldwide economic panic.
From my point of view, so long as there is no functioning social movement on the left, mainstream politics will continue to be a vast wasteland and my main criterion in voting will be how best to stave off the ultra-right lunatics.
2) Republicans are helping the NRA stave off serious gun laws by pushing weaker restrictions riddled with loopholes.