The phrase "averted rather than" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two actions or outcomes, indicating a preference for one over the other.
Example: "The crisis was averted rather than exacerbated by the quick response of the team."
Alternatives: "prevented instead of" or "avoided rather than".
This would not stop the boats entirely, and it will not satisfy those who think that migration is a possibility to be averted rather than an inevitability to be mitigated.
"For supporters of affirmative action, I'd put it in the category of disaster averted rather than victory achieved".
"For supporters of affirmative action, I'd put it in the category of disaster averted rather than victory achieved," said David A. Strauss, a law professor at the University of Chicago.
A public-jobs program that provides workers with a living wage and secure benefits (and that establishes benchmarks for private-sector employers) is also a form of stimulus — and one that, unlike what Obama got, might have averted, rather than postponed, the risk of a double-dip recession.
This may remain the case even if a conservative approach to costs is adopted, focusing solely on the immediate direct costs of suicide and future lost productivity costs averted, rather than also including the intangible costs to individuals of the immediate and unexpected loss of life that account for as much as 70% of the costs of suicide in some studies [ 52].
40 When the dynamic transmission model is used to estimate the number of averted cases, rather than assuming the number of averted cases is proportional to vaccine coverage as assumed in the previous analyses, the proportion of cases averted rises sharply with increasing vaccine coverage then plateaus when coverage exceeds 70%.
The report says: "The optimism some CEOs display may therefore stem from the relief that certain risks (such as the collapse of the eurozone) have been averted for now, rather than the conviction that things are really getting better".
However, the adjustments we applied (to account for partner overlap, for the impact of treatment on the interval in which an STI-attributable HIV infection might occur, and for the possibility that HIV cases averted are merely "delayed" rather than "forever averted") greatly reduced the estimated impact of program activities on HIV incidence.
Fifteen months later, the regime reversed itself, declaring martial law and outlawing Solidarity--but this only delayed rather than averted the looming crisis of the communist system.
In addition, amygdala activation increases when fearful face stimuli make direct, rather than averted, eye-contact with the viewer [27].
