Sentence examples for averted entirely from inspiring English sources

The subway fare increase -- the first in almost four years and the largest percentage increase since 1984 -- defied the pattern of the last 15 years, in which large increases were proposed but were reduced or averted entirely at the 11th hour, often with state and city aid.

This dilemma could be averted entirely if only progressives were brave enough to let their single-payer proposal endure the test of real-world experimentation among the laboratories of democracy.

As former monetary policy committee economist David Blanchflower keeps writing, with ever more anguished urgency, do everything possible to avert an entirely predictable social calamity.

Among healthy young adults, the vaccine is 70percentto90percentceffectivetive at averting the flu entirely.

And yet, eyes wide shut the nations of the earth are doing very little to avert the impending, entirely foreseeable catastrophe.

"It would take some explaining to say now that federal courts must avert their gaze entirely from any international norm intended to protect individuals," he added.

She began "Soleá" by sitting still, her face averted from the audience and her focus entirely on her musicians.

In the words of Timothy Binkley, traditional aesthetics is preoccupied 'with perceptual entities' and this 'leads aesthetics to extol and examine the "work of art", while averting its attention almost entirely from the myriad other aspects of that complex cultural activity we call "art" ' (Binkley 1977, 271).

Catastrophe averted?

She averted them.

David: Not averted.