For now, it looks likely that Thailand will be able to avert another coup, but that hardly seems like it should count as an accomplishment for a middle-income country with, eg, a rate of infant mortality that is nearly as low as Sweden's.But some rabble-rousing is all but guaranteed.
Israeli Foreign Ministry communications with its embassies abroad suggest that Israel fears that it may be able to avert the Jewish state's suspension by FIFA but is unlikely to completely avoid punitive measures against it.
Hygiene promotion is able to avert 200 DALY's per $1,000 spent, making it the most cost-effective public health intervention in the world (32).
It needed managers and businessmen able to avert starvation and total economic collapse.
When it is all over, MacWhirr proves the only man able to avert the feared mutiny by the massed Chinese coolies, who've been locked below throughout in terrible conditions.
"It is now clear that we will not be able to avert a more serious and prolonged economic slowdown if we don't address the problem of increasing mortgage foreclosures," Representative Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committtee, said on Tuesday.
Before his visit, King Abdullah set off a minor diplomatic flurry when, in an interview with the BBC, he accused Britain of not taking the issue of terrorism seriously enough and said it had ignored Saudi intelligence "that may have been able to avert the tragedy" of the bombings in London on July 7 , 2005
Selig did not quarrel when asked if he believed baseball's leaders might have been able to avert the wrongdoing described in Mitchell's report had they been more focused on it, instead of on economic issues, as was alleged by Mitchell.
When it found itself in a similar financial situation last year, Mr. Bloomberg was able to avert layoffs by eliminating raises for teachers and principals for two years.
They might, by attaching rocket motors to the incoming rock, or nudging its orbit with nuclear explosions, even be able to avert disaster.
