Sentence examples for averted violence from inspiring English sources

By refusing to confront them directly, the government largely averted violence and avoided giving the army a pretext to intervene on Mr Suthep's behalf to "save" the country, democracy or anything else.Some have suggested that the two sides may now sit down together to negotiate a way out of the impasse.

Violence was only averted because the battalion commander, now sacked for his moderation, ignored orders from his high command to open fire.

Officials' sole point of pride six months after the earthquake — that disease and violence had been averted — vanished with the outbreak of cholera and political unrest over a disputed presidential election.

And some onstage violence is not averted: One character audibly snaps the neck of another in combat, and the climax includes Macduff holding the severed head of Macbeth for all to see.

Because the efficacy, when translated into cases averted and deaths averted, is just tremendous.

Costs are averted when complications are averted (15).

These metrics include deaths averted and private expenditures averted.

The uneasy truce that has followed is partial, marked by the averted gazes of divided communities, and punctuated by violence.

The report cites independent analyses done for Massachusetts showing that the state saves approximately $8 million dollars annually in averted health care costs related to intimate partner violence as a result of civil legal assistance for survivors.

VAWA provided federal resources to encourage coordinated community responses to combating violence, and it saved money while saving lives: nearly $12.6 billion in averted social costs in its first six years alone.

The crisis was averted.