The phrase "avert attacks" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing preventing or avoiding attacks, whether they are physical, verbal, or cyber in nature.
Example: "The security team implemented new measures to avert attacks on the company's network."
Alternatives: "prevent assaults" or "ward off attacks".
To Iran's leaders, going back on such security decisions would be akin to giving up the nation's capabilities to avert attack.
The questions underlying the commission's review are whether any measures could have been taken to avert attack on the Cole and whether anyone in the chain of command should be held responsible for security lapses.
Nasdaq also shared the electronic signatures it identified from the attack with other companies to help them avert similar attacks, Hallberg said.
Mr. D'Amato said AOL has gone to great lengths to avert hacker attacks on its site and protect member information.
Even before the latest threat information, federal officials were using sophisticated air-monitoring devices at sites in Manhattan, Newark and Washington to help avert biological attacks.
Up to 80,000 troops and police were deployed to avert extremist attacks, and turnout was estimated to be about 51% an hour before the polls closed.
What was needed was coöperation with other federal agencies, but for reasons both petty and obscure those agencies chose to hide vital clues from the investigators most likely to avert the attacks.
To avert future attacks, though, perhaps they should look harder.They might start, for example, in a nondescript house in the wealthiest district of Kabul, where a Pakistani NGO called Ummah Tameer-e-Nau (UTN) once had its offices.
But while conceding "serious problems" within the torture program, the CIA contends that some of the detainees whom it tortured – 39, according to the Senate – subsequently produced intelligence it considered valuable or that helped avert terrorist attacks.
It was the first lethal assault on Israeli civilians in nearly a month, and it came despite curfews enforced by Israel in the seven Palestinian towns it has occupied and surrounded in an effort to avert such attacks.
