Sentence examples for averted by a from inspiring English sources
A tragedy was averted by a whisker".
A murder is averted by a shopping cart.
These tragedies can be averted by a state with a monopoly on violence.
Looming bankruptcy averted by a last-minute bail-out from an increasingly impatient Arts Council.
It was virtually a career-ending sentence which Shostakovich only averted by a painful adjustment of his style.
A strike by seamen, which could have disrupted the tourist season, was averted by a civil mobilisation order.
War was averted by an agreement to have the dispute settled by international arbitration.
And there is the long history of crying wolf in Washington: in April everyone finally got up to speed on the threatened shutdown of the federal government just in time to see it averted by an 11th-hour deal.
Layoffs scheduled for today in the beleaguered Roosevelt schools were averted by an 11th-hour infusion of $1.4 million in state aid obtained by the state senator who represents the district.
In comments reported by Dow Jones newswires, he suggested that a recession could be averted by an interest rate fix.
Collapse of TC&I's stock price was averted by an emergency takeover by Morgan's U.S. Steel Corporation a move approved by anti-monopolist president Theodore Roosevelt.
