The phrase "and trying to avert" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to prevent or avoid a negative outcome or situation.
Example: "The team is working hard and trying to avert any potential crises that may arise during the project."
Alternatives: "and attempting to prevent" or "and working to avoid".
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.
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.
World leaders flew into South Korea last night to meet and try to avert an international "currency war".
Today, the White House cites that report — and its subsequent effort to better regulate Fannie and Freddie — as evidence that it foresaw the crisis and tried to avert it.
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.
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.
Most of the clients at Ms. Suganami's new practice in Fukushima city are also nuclear refugees who have lost their jobs and homes and are trying to avert bankruptcy.
Giants Coach Jim Fassel today was vague about the status of Widmer and Way, trying to avert an awkward situation brought on by the timing of the minicamp and salary- cap guidelines that make waiting another 24 hours fiscally advantageous.
