| The three-fifths compromise ensured Southern states enough votes in the House to stave off attempts to regulate or abolish slavery. |
| I initially hoped to stave off any broodiness by persuading my wife to take a job as a teacher. |
| One way in which the government is trying to stave off this problem is by debt and interest payment rescheduling. |
| It's a film that plumbs the emotional depths of the women as they struggle to find meaning in their lives and stave off madness. |
| At the same time, governments have usually moved to stave off depreciatory, not appreciatory, speculation against their currencies. |
| Archaeologists think it may have been built in a forlorn attempt to stave off the effects of climate change 5,000 years ago. |
