Sentence examples for averted us from inspiring English sources

The agreement averted US missile strikes threatened after the apparent breach of US president Barack Obama's "red line".

Russia had urged Syria to have them destroyed to avert US-led military strikes.

The deal was put together to avert US military strikes.

A 2013 accord, brokered by Russia, took Assad's declared chemicals out of Syria in an 11th-hour move to avert US bombing.

The last ongoing talks to avert US default broke up on Sunday evening without resolution amid signs that investors were growing increasingly nervous that politicians would not reach a deal in time.

Mr Putin also said Russia had facilitated "international law, common sense and the logic of peace," in an apparent reference to his role in averting US intervention in Syria, a deal that resulted in Forbes magazine naming the Russian president the most influential person in the world, ahead of US President Barack Obama.

It began in London on Monday when Kerry, asked what Assad might do to to avert US attacks, said in an apparently off-the-cuff remark that the Syrian president could hand over all of his chemical weapons to the international community.

Russia has asked Syria to put its chemical weapons stockpile under international control in a bid to avert US military strikes.

Unlike his fictional colleague, he had managed to avert US involvement in yet another foreign conflict, rather than start one.

Our government may have averted sending us over the fiscal cliff, but the precipitous fall facing these children could be even more devastating.

Syria agreed to abandon its arsenal to avert possible US military action after a sarin nerve gas attack in August.