And if the Republicans will meet us in the middle of this offer we might be able to avert the need for a short-term CR".
You may be able to avert the worst even if your laptop is stolen.
"Our hope is that through a combination of voluntary efforts and measures to maintain water in reservoirs, we'll be able to avert the need for mandatory restrictions in the spring and summer," said Commissioner Campbell.
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.
**** Nobody doubts that the duty of England requires her to observe a strict neutrality in the great European struggle which is beginning, and everyone trusts that we may be able to avert the occurrence of any aggression upon the smaller neutral states - a kind calculated, by affecting our honour or our interests, to entangle us in the contest.
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.
That has been credited for steady reductions in claims and a business that has been able to avert the downdraft caused by price competition elsewhere in the auto insurance industry.
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.
"We were able to avert a major catastrophe," he said.
