But staunching the flow is a daunting prospect.

All life was now concentrated in that single gaping wound and all that needed doing in the world was the staunching of the blood.

In Iran this was enormously popular and seen as a long overdue staunching of its national wealth which could now be harnessed to fighting poverty in Iran.

The initial allocations ($9 billion spread over three years) were expected to provide for a reasonable growth of reserves in the context of a staunching of the flow of dollars.

The staunching of Fidelity's once-frantic turnover of fund managers has certainly been a factor, he said, as has the creation of a senior management team that has shouldered responsibility for trading, marketing and computer systems - tasks that used to fall to portfolio managers.

With James V (ruled 1528-1542), whose banner he followed in several of his expeditions to the Borders and elsewhere, Melville stood in considerable favour, and the king took a personal interest in the staunching of a blood-feud between him and his neighbour, Moultray of Seafield.

Of course, you can always count on my staunch support.

You're a staunch companion if ever any girl had one!

He was a lonely man and had few but staunch friends.

But already, as a staunch Congressman, he knew his time was up.

Later in life, she was also a staunch Republican and natural conservative.

He is your true and staunch friend, on whom you can build.

That list candidates will be staunch party members goes without saying.

Her brother had come out of the war a staunch Democrat.

He had been a staunch supporter in the old days.

He had let down her cause in 1186, and was still a staunch supporter of Guy.

So I break my staunch resolution, and think it may be, perhaps, as well to go to bed.

Working from home is the future, and I am among its staunchest advocates.

Some Democrats who were considered staunch allies are now under question.

It was quite different in tone from his staunch speech.

For many years, he remained a staunch member of the League.

The firm is a very staunch supporter of the program.

He is a staunch leftist who lives for the movement.

He was a man of staunch character, and the west owes him much.

The man might make a staunch subordinate if he could win him over.

And even staunch supporters of the plant are concerned about its security.

But even some of their staunchest opponents give them credit.

We're very staunch supporters of universal health care, for example.

In the early '60s, he was a staunch civil rights advocate.

"Not a staunch supporter of our foreign policy, I take it."

"I know you and he were not the staunchest of comrades."

In no time at all the flow of water was staunched.

And it seems to have staunched the flow, at least in the short term.

I staunched the flow of blood from his wound, and stood back.

It hurt very much, but the blood had staunched, the wound was already closing.

But the overall loss will not be staunched soon.

She took a handkerchief from her trousers pocket and staunched the blood.

The tears began to flow, but she staunched them.

Then she'd staunched and cauterized the blood flow to save his life.

The process is particularly important in staunching hemorrhage and acute blood loss.

She pushed herself up and went to him, closing his hand in hers, staunching the wound.

He cannot modernize the economy without staunching the hemorrhage of military spending.

Daniel had staunched the bleeding and sealed the wound, but the arm could not be used.

She could not spend another winter in England staunching memories like blood from a punched nose.

He saw the wound could not be staunched.

If the bleeding is not staunched to the referee's satisfaction, the player must then leave the field for further attention.

A trickle of green on each side of the head was staunched by a nurse.

With some pressure, the bleeding would be staunched.

Staunching the flow of unregistered weapons into our neighborhoods is one priority.

She was bleeding dreadfully and we had some difficulty in staunching the blood.'

The blood came seeping through fold after fold, but she staunched it in the end.

Bashir put pressure on the wounds, staunching the blood flow.

Jane had suddenly staunched her anger and melted Lord John with a smile.

By now, several of the students trained in first aid were clustered about him, removing his jacket and staunching the wound.

But staunching the flow is a daunting prospect.

With her own hands, she staunched blood and she helped carry litters to the wagons.

City efforts to stanch that loss seem to have worked.

He had stanched the wound and the man was better.

He is among those trying to stanch the spread of the disease.

But it did little to stanch the daily violence across the country.

He tried to stanch the flow, but it was no use.

With her hands and hair she tried to stanch the flow of his blood.

And the arms flow in particular needs to be stanched.

But the company has taken steps to stanch the bleeding.

At least the snow had stanched the flow of blood.

Others complain that the police have not done enough to stanch the drug trade.

And it seems to have stanched the flow, at least in the short term.

He was clutching his right arm and trying to stanch the blood.

These flows must be stanched before they bring the entire structure down.

A trainer had to come out and stanch the wound.

Four surgeons went to work trying to stanch the bleeding.

Other members said he should have stanched the political hemorrhage.

He held his hand like that for several minutes, hoping to stanch the flow of blood.

Next he tried to stanch the bleeding of his scalp.

- The body of a living man could alone stanch the flow.

But this morning, the authorities said, the source of those weapons was finally stanched.

He pressed down with the T-shirt, trying to stanch the blood.

The passing of more than a century has also stanched the stench.

For a start, that meant stanching the flow of red ink.

He stanched the green liquid with a handkerchief and looked down at the man.

Blood drained from her body despite all efforts to stanch its flow.