Sentence examples for attempted to avert from inspiring English sources

She attempted to avert the worse of two terrible outcomes: the loss of her daughters' lives along with her own.

While the civil servant Katharine Gun attempted to avert the Iraq war by leaking information about US diplomatic blackmail, provoking international outrage.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has attempted to avert strike action by inviting the Head of the Medical Students committee, Johann Malawana, to talks.

As reporter for the constitutional revision committee, he attempted to avert the final confrontation between the president and the legislature, which ended with an executive seizure of dictatorial power.

The food giant attempted to avert public disquiet over growing obesity, and lawsuits from the porky, by announcing that it would cut the size of snacks and may reduce their fat and sugar content too.

The bailed-out banks will also be under the spotlight, although Stephen Hester, the chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, has already attempted to avert the focus on himself by waiving his 2012 payout following the IT meltdown in the summer.

Attempting to avert the company's collapse, the U.S. government granted Chrysler $1.5 billion in loan guarantees.

It attempts to avert insolvency by lowering the costs of care.

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.

During the past decade, peace activism focused on the immediate problems to be resolved between Israel and the Palestinian Authority -- resolving yesterday's crisis and attempting to avert tomorrow's crisis.