Sentence examples for attempts to avert the from inspiring English sources

Attempts to avert the infamous "fiscal cliff" are like a super-high-stakes card game.

Asian markets slumped immediately after the news that attempts to avert the US debt default had failed overnight.

Republicans and Democratic lawmakers remained at odds with each other and with President Donald Trump over a budget proposal, blocking attempts to avert the shutdown with a short-term spending bill.

Appropriate policy responses may include attempts to avert the loss of housing in association with admission, efforts to increase housing supply and the speed at which it is made available, and reforms of payment systems to encourage this.

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

In an attempt to avert the ruin of his niece, Flaubert sacrificed his inheritance.

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.

However, the latter was elected as a representative in the Italian parliament and did offer to sleep with Saddam Hussein in an attempt to avert the first Gulf War.

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.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali succeeded in getting himself demonised by the Americans; Javier Perez de Cuellar, who made a doomed last-ditch attempt to avert the Gulf war in January 1991, was seen by Iraq as too close to the West.