Sentence examples for acted to avert from inspiring English sources

The government said it acted to avert a coup.

How have Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee acted to avert an investigation?

Germany acted to avert the imminent financial collapse of several countries, but often late and never decisively enough to resolve the crisis once and for all.

But the Democrats said they had also acted to avert a partisan feud that would delay the military-spending measure, which is needed to finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other national security programs through Sept. 30.

The implied disclaimer that ABC did broadcast will allow the network to argue that it voluntarily acted to avert whatever damage the broadcast might have done to Monty Python's reputation for integrity.

She said that if the agency had been using the more comprehensive system of case reviews that it is now beginning, caseworkers might have acted to avert problems after Mr. Wasserman's mother, who had primary responsibility for the children, died in January 2001.

Obama is now insisting Israel act to avert that unhappy outcome.

It is possible that doctors can act to avert or lessen allergic reactions on the first dose.

The tax increases and spending cuts may siphon about $600 billion from the economy next year if Congress fails to act to avert them.

Is this the prospect before us if we go on as we are, and if it is, should we act to avert it or learn to accept it?

The Lib Dems are therefore a party in need of a double inquest: one into the lessons of the 2015 election disaster, and another into the party's refusal to act to avert it.