Sentence examples for avert violence from inspiring English sources

But these & other measures were not enough to avert violence.

A general amnesty was declared on Aug. 16, 1979, but this move failed to avert violence.

Residents said they hoped that media attention and the presence of the United Nations would help avert violence.

Some local officials and Misseriya elders have worked heroically to avert violence, but state-controlled newspapers in Khartoum are carrying false reports of attacks on Arabs, inflaming tensions.

But UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Ki-moone malpractice wasaidore serious then initially thought" and called on Haiti's leadership and election candidates to negotiate a "Haitian solution" to avert violence.

Crime Prevention Minister Norman Baker told The Independent that the drive "is part of a long-term commitment to prevent abuse before it starts" and that by changing attitudes from the age of 13, especially among boys, it can avert violence in adulthood.

The strategy is aimed at averting violence but it also has undermined rule of law and the government's authority, with police staying away from the scattered pockets of Bangkok controlled by demonstrators.

Police say the aim of the curfew is to "avert further violence" after Friday's violence.

The long-term benefit of this strategy might avert teenage violence, risk behaviors, depression and suicide.

A compromise is urgently needed, one that would bring all the country's warring factions and rival agencies together to avert further violence.

The report on a particularly tense episode in May 2009 provides a unusual glimpse at the role American military personnel and civilians have played in trying to avert sectarian violence.