Sentence examples for and efforts to avert from inspiring English sources

Further attacks by men who consider themselves Muslims are inevitable, and efforts to avert them will inconvenience nearly everyone.

One issue at the conference that was not overshadowed by the Snowden affair was the territorial disputes in the South China Sea and efforts to avert a military confrontation there.

Douglas Lowy, a deputy director of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, agrees, but also stresses that a great deal of "cancer is preventable" and efforts to avert the disease must continue.

Last week, the European Commission put biodiversity at the center of its annual Green Week conference in Brussels after E.U. environment ministers warned in March against "going beyond the limits of nature," and after heads of state and government endorsed the ministers' pledge to halt biodiversity loss in the Union by 2020 and step up efforts to avert such losses globally.

Such a person is likely to exhibit intolerance of the uncertain risk and make repeated efforts to avert it, because the perceived cost of failure is so high.

Sandelius also saw Stratton as pushing more for re-educating the mind rather than training people to control emotions and passions in the efforts to avert war.

Officials worried that continuing heavy rain and a lack of helicopters and large boats were hampering efforts to avert disaster on the scale of last year, when floods killed more than 700 people.

The plan sets out 1) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon; 2) to prepare the U.S. for the impacts of climate change; and 3) to lead international efforts to avert global warming.

Lady Ashton, the new EU trade commissioner, has called for a final push on an agreement to free up world trade, as the cornerstone of efforts to avert protectionism and a possible slide into economic depression.

Republicans in the US House of Representatives and President Barack Obama have met amid efforts to avert a looming debt crisis.

And yet, as we continue our efforts to avert the "end of human rights," what will our own generation's legacy of implementation be?