Sentence examples for avert war from inspiring English sources

Ultimately he had to rely on the generals and spy chiefs to avert war.

The Obama administration's first interest in the region is to avert war between Iran and Israel.

OFFICIALS from the world's biggest economies meet on February 15th-16th in Moscow on a mission to avert war.

His plea for peace in the periodical Le Temps (1867) helped to avert war between France and Prussia over Luxembourg.

In 1794 Washington sent Jay as a special envoy to Great Britain to help avert war over accumulated grievances.

What concerns the United States most in the region is trying to avert war between Israel and Iran.

IF EUROPEANS no longer feel that "ever closer union" is needed to avert war, what new project might unite them?

Mr. Rumsfeld's comments came after a day of talks with Indian leaders intended to help avert war with Pakistan.

"There was an assumption that the way to avert war was to constrain ourselves, instead of having a healthy deterrent".

During the fall, Sharon suggested to me more than once that only the strongest measures could possibly avert war.

The first is that Britain was "wholly in the right, for she did all that she could to avert war".