The phrase "and tried to avert" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort to prevent or avoid something undesirable from happening.
Example: "She noticed the storm approaching and tried to avert any damage to her property."
Alternatives: "and attempted to prevent" or "and sought to avoid".
World leaders flew into South Korea last night to meet and try to avert an international "currency war".
Perhaps most important, media companies are learning from the music industry's mistakes and trying to avert broader adoption of piracy techniques.
Fearing close-range attacks on the Jewish enclaves and trying to avert street violence between Arabs and Jews, the army has imposed the curfew, confining nearly 20,000 Palestinians living in the Israeli-controlled zone to their homes.
What a hell of a lot of time we devote to detecting decay, apportioning disgust and trying to avert mortality, always on guard against miasmas of the unhealed, the incontinent, the cankerous.
His remarks will add to the pressure on Mr Blair as he battles to win backbench support ahead of Tuesday's vote on top-up tuition fees and tries to avert criticisms in the Hutton report into the death of the government weapons scientist David Kelly.
The driver, a 57-year-old Stockport man called John Axon, ordered the fireman Ron Scanlon to jump to safety, but as the train hurtled downhill towards Chapel-en-le-Frith, Axon himself clung to the boiling footplate to warn the Doves Hole signalman to clear the track and try to avert tragedy.
But it's undeniable that from climate change (with Tesla's emphasis on reducing the use of fossil fuels); to malevolent artificial super-intelligences (with Neuralink); and the threat of global war wreaking havoc (the Mars escape plan à la SpaceX), Musk is readying a large chunk of humanity for a coming cataclysm — and trying to avert it.
"It's kind of the elephant in the room that Governor Brown is supposedly a climate change champion and trying to avert it, yet he's also a champion of fracking," Anna Ghosh of Food and Water Watch told The Huffington Post at the protest.
Even if the alert was raised at the weekend, the physician would thus have at least 1 day to react and try to avert hospitalization or an impending event by pre-emptive therapy.
It suggests that he attempted to delay putting legislation before Congress for political reasons and that he tried to avert a public showdown between King and the governor of Alabama, George Wallace (played by Tim Roth).
