Sentence examples for avert a collision from inspiring English sources

Any tax cuts would need to be offset by spending cuts to avert a collision with Brussels.

A day of talks seemed to do little to avert a collision between Democrats and Republicans that could result in a government shutdown on Saturday.

He headed straight for the woods on the left, then jerked sharply to the right just in time to avert a collision with a sturdy red oak.

That would give his pro-Israel credentials a needed pre-election boost, but might shatter all his strenuous efforts to improve America's standing with the Arabs.Paying the Israel premium American officials sped to the region this week, hoping, with European help, to avert a collision at the UN.

McLaren's Fernando Alonso so nearly hit his front jackman when his brakes failed while entering his pit box, the quick feet of the mechanic averting a collision.

He is trying to keep his Alianza coalition of center-left parties from breaking apart, to avert a direct collision with the opposition and to convince investors that the country will not default on debt or devalue its currency.

And with creditors ruling out both, analysts say it will require a major kolotumba, or U-turn, on the part of the leader to avert a head-on collision.

In between these two mirror-image subduction zones lies the South Island, which acts as a tectonic intermediary, accommodating the differential motion via a complex system of faults, like a team of diplomats doing their best to avert a head-on collision between superpowers.

And did it really avert a calamity?

Negotiations to avert a takeover are ongoing.

Last year we helped avert a famine.