Sentence examples for avert the meltdown from inspiring English sources

If Hansen is correct, to avert the meltdown that brings the Holocene to an end we require a sort of political "albedo flip".

Amadopoulos and Homer go to the control room, and Amadopoulos asks Homer to avert the meltdown.

No one has suggested that a quicker response would have averted the mortgage meltdown, but some officials said a faster reaction might have deterred more of the early schemes that seized on loose federal lending regulations.

In Ireland the economic crisis seems to have increased pro-European sentiment, because the country's membership in the bloc's single currency zone helped it avert the type of financial meltdown that Iceland, which is not a union member, endured.

But I believe there's still time to save them -- and avert the dangerous effects an Arctic meltdown will have on the rest of the world.

In desperation, he chooses a button at random and miraculously presses the button that averts the meltdown.

The bailed-out banks will also be under the spotlight, although Stephen Hester, the chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, has already attempted to avert the focus on himself by waiving his 2012 payout following the IT meltdown in the summer.

When this failed, he blurted out something about averting the impending economic meltdown by convening a government commission, ostensibly to study the urgent crisis and perhaps issue a recommendation sometime in the future.

But if the Fed wants to avert a meltdown in the markets, it is clearly not unhappy to see the speculative froth skimmed off stock prices.

The lobbying on Capitol Hill is fast and furious and it is disturbingly unclear whether Congress will come up with the strong changes needed to avert another meltdown — or do the bidding of the banks and opt for weak reforms and pretend they are strong.

I understand it's important to get a handle on just how much money the U.S. government is shelling out to avert financial meltdown, but the $7.8 trillion number that's now regularly bandied about is profoundly misleading, even if you describe it, as the New York Times' Edmund Andrews did today, as $7.8 trillion in "direct and indirect financial obligations".