How to Use "stave" with Example Sentences

1. Changing that now may stave off bigger problems in the future .

2. Will u.s. consumers make the comeback we need to stave off another recession ?

3. This week 's euphoria assumed policymakers would manage to stave off economic trouble .

4. Can anything be done , apart from economic plans designed to stave off short-term disaster ?

5. Another , more pernicious , possibility is that countries would start to use trade barriers to stave off competition .