You have to get more exercise in order to stave off senility.

The Fed is trying to stave off a run on the banks.

Turns out doing crossword puzzles can stave off some of the effects of Alzheimer's.

Kendo involves dueling between two people who are each equipped with a sword like stave made of bamboo.

They tend to walk, the only proven way to stave off cognitive decline, and they all tend to have a garden.

David Cameron is trying to work out whether to cut more public sector jobs in order to stave off a double dip recession.

And therefore three cheers for Nantucket and come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot. gt

A barrel is made of staves, and like water filling a barrel, growth can go no further than the lowest stave, or the most limited essential resource.

If my family, though, had been the kind of people to believe in therapy, they probably would have diagnosed me as something like gender dysmorphic and put me on hormones to stave off puberty.

That's unusually young and if you are genetically susceptible so that's may happen to you then there are things that you can do that might stave that off and bring you closer to having an average age alongside of that problem,

In a vain effort to stave off infection, the Italian speaking port city of Ragusa, in what is now Croatia, mandated that ships arriving from Plague infested areas remain isolated on the water until it was deemed likely that they weren't carrying a disease.