Sentence examples for avert the war from inspiring English sources

He said that he wanted to avert the war he had promised.

Some are merely killers; others try to avert the war and then regret the bloodbath that follows; still others view the entire war with wit and irony.

Themistocles and Artemisia indulge in a brief, ahistorical bout of hate sex, which fails to avert the war but does mean viewers get to see more breasts.

With the civil war over, Julius Caesar prepared a campaign against Parthia, but his assassination averted the war.

He is essentially a gunslinging ronin, and Milly needs him to avert the future war.

While the civil servant Katharine Gun attempted to avert the Iraq war by leaking information about US diplomatic blackmail, provoking international outrage.

Jaurès's central concern during the pre-1914 decade was to avert the general war that he saw looming ahead in Europe.

After the assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo, he tried hard to avert the impending war by diplomatic action and resisted, until July 30 , 1914 the pressure of the military for general, rather than partial, mobilization.

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).

In 1845 he was sent to Mexico by President James K. Polk to secure territorial concessions and at the same time to avert the approaching war with that country.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali succeeded in getting himself demonised by the Americans; Javier Perez de Cuellar, who made a doomed last-ditch attempt to avert the Gulf war in January 1991, was seen by Iraq as too close to the West.