Sentence examples for averted a disaster from inspiring English sources

LAST week our country averted a disaster.

Italian coast guard spokesman Filippo Marini was quoted by AP news agency as saying the Italians had averted a disaster by interrupting the programmed route that would have had the ship crash into the shore.

Thanks in part to the courts and journalists like Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, and to true Republican patriots who refused to follow Nixon's nefarious orders, this country narrowly averted a disaster.

When the bomb hit the ground, a firing signal was sent to the nuclear core of the device and it was only the final, highly vulnerable switch that averted a disaster.

Hurricane Sandy was battering the region, and Mr. Alacha was trying to avert a disaster.

Another alarm that could avert a disaster is a water-leak detector.

The ensuing fire was rapidly extinguished, averting a disaster in a densely populated area near Tel Aviv.

You cannot stop a storm, but you can avert a disaster – this one, in part, was man-made.

The poison was identified before it was unloaded at the plant, averting a disaster, the paper said.

A few well-chosen words, or even miraculously some deeds, such as approving much-delayed tax reforms, might avert a disaster.* "Is Brazil Next?", by John Williamson.

He knew about the 50 workers who stayed at their posts at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, battling to avert a disaster.