Sentence examples similar to avert being killed from inspiring English sources

Some 10 duels had been averted before Hamilton was killed in one at 49, shot by Vice President Aaron Burr (just two years after this house was completed).

After several of his soldiers were killed, he decided to surrender, as he tells it, to avert a larger bloodbath.

Currently, the chief tactic used in Asia to avert a pandemic is to kill every flock with infected birds and all nearby flocks.

Archives|Alioune Blondin Beye, 59, Envoy for U.N. Alioune Blondin Beye, 59, Envoy for U.N. Alioune Blondin Beye, a United Nations envoy on a diplomatic mission aimed at averting renewed bloodshed in Angola, was apparently killed on Friday night in the crash of a light plane near Abidjan, the capital of the Ivory Coast.

Deaths averted were calculated similarly.

If scouts are reliably detected and killed, a raiding attack could be averted.

All she does is avert herself; avert her lips, avert her eyes".

Edinburgh came again soon after when John Barclay hoofed downfield, the danger only being averted when his old Scarlets pal, Tadhg Beirne, killed the key ruck.

Last season Darwyn infiltrated an underground cell in Los Angeles and managed to avert an anthrax attack on Dodger Stadium that was meant to kill tens of thousands of people.

To avert your own is to condone; to avert that of others is to become an accessory.

It's not clear if any doctor could have averted the fentanyl overdose that killed the singer in April.