Sentence examples for attempting to avert the from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.