The phrase "avert terrorist attacks" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about security measures, prevention strategies, or government policies aimed at reducing the risk of terrorism.
Example: "The government has implemented several new policies to avert terrorist attacks and ensure public safety."
Alternatives: "prevent terrorist attacks" or "stop terrorist attacks".
Obsessed with averting terrorist attacks on his watch, he was quick to identify threats -- and bully people into addressing them.
Mr. Bush said, as he had previously, that information from the C.I.A.'s interrogations had averted terrorist attacks, including plots to attack a Marine camp in Djibouti; the American Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan; Library Tower in Los Angeles; and passenger planes from Britain.
It is comforting to believe that changing our policies overseas will avert future terrorist attacks.
Some of that money probably helped avert other terrorist attacks (although some of it spent in Iraq and Afghanistan may have increased risks).
We have managed to avert further terrorist attacks on the scale of 9/11, and our security services deserve all our thanks for the brave and painstaking work they do.
Fortunately, their makeshift workmanship (one gas cylinder, water bottles filled with gasoline as a detonator, an alarm clock) was so crude that the bombs failed to explode.Predictably, the politicians are now outdoing each other with plans for how best to avert further terrorist attacks.
WASHINGTON -- An FBI program intended to collect reports of suspicious activity and avert potential terrorist attacks was hampered by resistance from local law enforcement officials who had concerns about privacy protections, according to newly released government documents.
Some member states of the union including Britain are also looking to use more passenger data to help avert a terrorist attack.
Except in true emergencies where searching a mobile phone could, say, avert a terrorist attack, police prying without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment's bar on "unreasonable" searches, the justices decided.
He repeatedly said the federal government was doing "everything we can" to avert another terrorist attack, but he said so only a few hours after the F.B.I. issued a warning of possible new terrorist acts.
