Sentence examples for averted said from inspiring English sources

"What I witnessed in Mozambique was a disaster averted," said Dr. Steven Gloyd, an international health specialist at the University of Washington who works with Mozambique.

No contract had been signed by press time, but the crisis seemed to have been averted, said a representative for the show.

"Yes, it could have been averted," said Representative Dana Rohrabacher, Republican of California, who led the delegation and is the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats.

Had Mr Walsh done so, the strike could have been averted, said Mr Woodley, as he could have taken the deal to his members for their consideration.That sounds like posturing to me.

"If AIG had been pressured to put some of its divisions into bankruptcy, this crisis could have been averted," said Eli Lehrer, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington.

"For each death in a marathon, two motor-vehicle crash deaths were averted," said Dr. Donald A. Redelmeier, a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto and the lead author of the new study.

You could say a second potential Paris has been averted," he said.

Had the screening continued for 10 years, as many as 80 percent of lung cancer deaths could have been averted, she said.

"My hope is that I will be able to announce to the American people sometime early in the day that a shutdown has been averted," he said.

It was only because of the intervention of a local conservation body that "all-out war" with tour operators had been averted, he said.

A brewing housing crisis that could have resulted in thousands of struggling families losing their rental subsidies has been averted, officials said, thanks to an intricate $32 million plan devised by city and state agencies that received federal approval on Wednesday.