Sentence examples similar to avert a failure from inspiring English sources

But Con Ed spokesmen have given assurances to elected officials that they could avert a disastrous failure without the union members.

Though they have not succeeded in calming the markets, European leaders have taken a series of steps to avert a Lehman-like failure.

Pessimism mounted among members of the committee about their ability to strike a deal by Monday and avert a high-profile failure that would demonstrate anew the inability of the two parties on Capitol Hill to reach consensus about how to attack the nation's mounting public debt.

The disclosure that A.I.G., which has received $170 billion in government assistance to remain afloat and avert a cascade of failures in the financial system, is paying bonuses to its executives is the latest in a series of episodes that Mr. Obama's aides said seemed to be feeding a resurgence of public anger.

Juan Goytisolo, an award-winning Spanish writer who was a child during the Spanish war, has written of the moral blindness of non-interventionist powers such as Britain and France, whose policies of appeasement in the 1930s had been as ineffective as they were disastrous in their failure to avert a wider war.

With the apparent failure of diplomacy to avert a conflict, they say, preventive action is more important than ever.

And did it really avert a calamity?

Negotiations to avert a takeover are ongoing.

The failure to attract sufficient capital inflows precipitated a balance of payment crisis in 1991, when the central bank had to fly 47 metric tons of gold to Europe as collateral for a loan to avert a sovereign default.

With the next fiscal showdown in Washington just weeks away, the failure of the Senate-White House talks will shift attention toward Congressional leaders who have yet to engage in detailed talks to avert a political and possibly an economic disaster.

Last year we helped avert a famine.