The phrase "avert tragedy" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to emphasize the importance of taking action in order to prevent a tragedy from occurring. For example, "The firefighters worked tirelessly to avert tragedy and managed to contain the wildfire."
But on their arrival in Marseilles, the elite French SWAT force waits to avert tragedy.
They made stabs at helping, but not enough to avert tragedy.
In his case, a personal commitment and a relatively petty amount of cash sufficed to avert tragedy.
If we are to avert tragedy in Palestine, an immediate truce must be reached between the Arabs and Jews of that country.
They looked to these as the sister of Bluebeard's wife looked to the highroad for the help which alone could avert tragedy.
We should review some suicides, serious injury and near misses too, so we can avert tragedy without having to study one first.
In the future, do Martin and the child's social worker, Clea (Gugu Mbatha-Rawho-- whashas a preposterous amount of time to devote to one client -- simply run around and avert tragedies, thanks to Jake's enigmatic clues?
The ultimate explanation for such galvanising and controlling cultures is, by contrast, well-explained from a model in which religious cultures evolve to avert tragedies of Rousseau's forest and Hume's meadow.
Pre-game communication, conventions, and other instructional devices cannot avert tragedies in Rousseau's forest and Hume's meadow because risky coordination problems are not problems of knowledge, common or otherwise.
It may have been karmic payback for his feat of bravery a decade earlier when, sitting in a North Carolina parking lot, he witnessed a car plunge into a river, waded into the drink, and dragged two elderly passengers to safety, averting tragedy and earning a medal for his bravery.
This is not to say that we did not have our incidents where our own children fell in the water, (once off our boat, a few times from docks) but we always had an eagle eye on them, and we averted tragedy.
