Sentence examples for avert the conflict from inspiring English sources

But his failure to avert the conflict, as he also conceded, "ultimately cost me my job as secretary of state".

Tradition holds that this letter prompted either Adair or Jackson to challenge the other to a duel, but friends of both men averted the conflict after assembling to watch; no written evidence of the event exists.

The President has positioned himself well for the forthcoming conflict in Congress, but nothing he could now do could avert that conflict.

15th president of the United States (1857 61), a moderate Democrat whose efforts to find a compromise in the conflict between the North and the South failed to avert the Civil War (1861 65).

The principle grew out of the United Nations' failure to avert the Rwandan genocide and the mass killings and ethnic cleansings in the Balkans conflict.

The deal to avert the fiscal cliff.

Some tried to avert the calamity here.

Is there time to avert the strike?

The Turkish Parliament has approved the use of troops to follow the fighters into Iraq if necessary, and the United States and Iraq have been trying at all costs to avert a conflict in the region, which is one of the few relatively peaceful areas of Iraq.

Amir Khaledi, who owns a kiosk selling Iranian-made shoes and sandals, said he supported Rouhani's nuclear diplomacy as a way to avert conflict with the United States and end Iran's long estrangement with the West.

It is part of America's efforts to avert conflict in the sea, a vital maritime thoroughfare for a big proportion of world trade.