0 present participle of staunch --
1 to stop something happening, or to stop liquid, especially blood, from flowing out: --
The process is particularly important in staunching hemorrhage and acute blood loss.
In antiquity, yarrow was known as "herbal militaris", for its use in staunching the flow of blood from wounds.
What was more natural, therefore, than to set up a track authority looking after infrastructure subsidy and, it was hoped, staunching the ever-growing demand for railway subsidies?
From that, even when incentives existed, we can;see that investment was declining and the incentives had no effect in staunching the flow away from investment.
Most of us regard that as quite a different proposition from staunching an outflow of public funds which are subsidising post offices.
That would be the best way of staunching the flow of asylum seekers and refugees.
But, of course, these short-term measures are in themselves only staunching the wound.
