Sentence examples for avert the worst impact from inspiring English sources
This amount reflects the growing severity and frequency of natural disasters, as well as the need for immediate action to avert the worst impact of crises to come.
Gore said there was a "tremendous push" for heads of government to formally ink the accord, to keep up momentum for the deal struck by nearly 200 countries in December and to avert the worst impacts of climate change on vulnerable nations.
"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the International Energy Agency have repeatedly said you need to keep about two-thirds of fossil fuel reserves underground if we want to stand a chance of averting the worst impacts of climate change," Rose Braz of the Center for Biological Diversity told HuffPost.
But in language and timing, the leaders of Congress's two chambers left the unmistakable impression that they want a deal at least large enough to avert the worst economic impacts of a sudden rise in income, payroll, capital gains, dividend, interest and estate tax rates that would affect virtually every American family, working or not.
The event was, in essence, the Climate Summit of Money, and the question being posed was how to finance the clean-energy transition that Paris promised — a transition that scientists and economists agree must happen quickly if the world is to avert the worst economic impacts of climate change — within the strictures of fiduciary duty.
To avert the worst, the White House should alter its loan-modification effort to emphasize principal reduction.
Over the years he sometimes succeeded in using his power and influence to avert the worst.
The surcharge revenue could be used to reduce many of the proposed cuts, or to avert the worst of them.
Ms. Lagarde offered a tentative prediction that what she called American "pragmatism" would prevail and avert the worst outcome.
