Sentence examples for avert a war from inspiring English sources

THOSE who are forgivably desperate to avert a war try to tell it differently.

Is it worth someone's freedom or life to avert a war with North Korea?

"This suggests that even the signing of a nonaggression treaty with the U.S. would not help avert a war".

"The Iraqi war shows that to allow disarming through inspection does not help avert a war but rather sparks it," the statement said.

President Bush called the leaders of India and Pakistan to try to avert a war, as India rushed troops to the nations' border.

DAKAR, Senegal — A rare diplomatic opening inside Islamist-held northern Mali was tried on Tuesday by the foreign minister of neighboring Burkina Faso — an attempt to avert a war that some Western officials say is now nearly inevitable.

Dedicate it to the off-the-cuff remark – the gaffe, even – which averts a war.

In 1988 the prime ministers of Turkey and Greece met at Davos and signed a declaration that may have averted a war.

Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi premier, averted a war by allowing United Nations weapons inspectors access to his contested presidential sites.

(2) China's interests and ours coincide in averting a war between India and your nuclear client, Pakistan.

So while reviving inspections was the only chance of averting a war, wasn't it also a way of giving international authority to a war?