The coup was carried out by hard-line Communist Party, KGB, and military officials attempting to avert a new liberalized union treaty and return to the old-line party values.
In the second innings, when he reached his own landmark, he was battling for his team, desperately attempting to avert first defeat and then, when that became inevitable, the humiliation of losing by an innings.
Before the last of the late night hosts headed off for a well-deserved break, they spent the week trying to find delicate reactions to the Newtown, Connecticut shooting, attempting to avert the Mayan apocalypse and celebrating the holidays.
Attempting to avert the company's collapse, the U.S. government granted Chrysler $1.5 billion in loan guarantees.
Attempting to avert her gaze from her former home ("That bitch is living in my house"), Rachel fixates on a neighbouring dwelling whose glamorous inhabitants seem to be staging theatrical acts of love for her viewing pleasure.
B1 Pataki Offers Compromise Gov. George E. Pataki, attempting to avert legislative overrides of his 207 budget vetoes, is offering a final compromise that would restore some property tax breaks and child tax credits and reduce the size of Medicaid cuts, a senior aide to the governor said.
By attempting to avert financial hardship in this way, GE could instead create a public relations catastrophe.
Meanwhile in a separate dispute management from CrossCountry trains have been in talks with RMT officials, attempting to avert a strike planned for Friday which would affect their services on the East Coast Mainline.
What if, in attempting to avert a scene, I wound up creating one?
Argentina and other countries attempted to avert a full-scale naval arms race by offering to purchase one of the two dreadnoughts.
