The phrase "avert against" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct usage would typically involve "avert" being used without "against," as "avert" means to prevent or avoid something.
Example: "We must take action to avert disaster."
Alternatives: "prevent" or "ward off".
"She did manage to avert revolt against her rule despite all of the stresses that occurred following the Nile failures and eruptions, in contrast to many of her male predecessors as Pharaohs," Ludlow said.
Human Rights Watch urged the international community to send a peacekeeping force to Haiti to avert violent retaliation against supporters of President Aristide in the capital.
The deal to avert military strikes against Serbia announced by President Clinton and the special envoy Richard C. Holbrooke ("Milosevic Accepts Kosovo Monitors, Averting Attack," front page, Oct. 14) sounds like the game that was played out so tragically in Bosnia.
The Bishop, at a news conference, said he would not meet with the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, who is due here next week on what is described as a peace mission designed to avert international sanctions against South Africa.
A conference of Muslim countries, hastily called for what was described as a last attempt by the Islamic world to help avert a war against Iraq, degenerated into a shouting match today.
The 18-page classified report, they said, grapples with a problem that has bedeviled the White House's approach toward Egypt and other countries in recent days: how to balance American strategic interests and the desire to avert broader instability against the democratic demands of the protesters.
CIA Director John Brennan on Monday rebutted two of the central premises of the just-released Senate report on the agency's former practice of interrogating suspected terrorists in secret, saying the controversial program produced evidence that helped avert potential strikes against the U.S. and that agency officials did not intentionally mislead Congress about its tactics.
The seats filled up quickly for the night session, when Agassi made enough passing shots and fast-twitch, well-timed returns to avert an upset against Max Mirnyi, a broad-shouldered intimidator who plays for Belarus but honed his game at the same tennis factory in Bradenton, Fla., where Agassi slugged millions of balls as a youngster.
For this purpose, several studies have been conducted to develop intelligent systems for continuously estimating driver vigilance level and emitting visual and acoustic alarms to avert the driver against abnormal state.
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass). on Thursday likened the threat posed by foreign hackers to "modern-day, 21st century nuclear weapons" and pledged to use diplomacy to avert cyber attacks against the nation's power grid, transportation system and financial networks.
