Sentence examples for avert the attacks from inspiring English sources

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.

Also this week, a lawyer for victims of November's attacks said the families planned to sue the French state for failing to avert the attacks carried out by assailants known to the security services.

The failure to push Abdeslam for concrete intelligence — even as close associates were known to be on the loose — adds to an emerging picture of intelligence agencies, police forces­ and criminal investigators that repeatedly failed to take advantage of opportunities to avert the attacks on Tuesday, the worst single day of violence in Belgium since World War II.

There are now concerns that the surviving man may be too badly injured ever to be interrogated and there are questions about whether the FBI missed opportunities to avert the attacks.

Trump's tweets may have added pressure that helped avert the attack.

Nevertheless, many of their 30 recommendations carried the implication that more could have been done to avert the attack.

While the F.B.I. has been praised for helping to catch one of the bombing suspects, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Congressional Republicans have raised questions about whether the bureau missed a chance to avert the attack.

Appearing before the House of Commons, the home secretary, Alan Johnson, retracted an assertion made on Monday by a spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown that implied that Britain had passed intelligence information about Mr. Abdulmutallab to the United States that might have helped avert the attack.

The resignation of the analyst -- who monitored terrorist threats in the region for the Defense Intelligence Agency -- raised new questions on Capitol Hill about whether the Pentagon and intelligence agencies could have done more to avert the attack on the Cole, which killed 17 sailors and wounded 39 on Oct. 12.

And the request that was denied was for a handful of guards, by all accounts not enough to have averted the attack.

In short, if the United States and its NATO and Arab allies had learned from the Iraq experience and implemented a full, well-supported plan for Benghazi, covering everything from technical assistance to security and staffing, we might have averted the attack and the momentum it has given to extremists.