For example, parasitic protists like microsporidia have developed a strategy that inhibit programmed cell death of the host cell by preventing normal host cell division, thereby averting premature exposure of the developing stages of the parasite to the environment (extracellular or external), a potentially catastrophic event for the parasite.
A functional centromere is vital for guarding against chromosomal instability during cell division by maintaining proper DNA segregation, averting chromosomal rearrangements, and preventing changes in ploidy.
Averting global financial meltdown.
But in the last two weeks of the season, the N.F.L. will avert its eyes from the flip side: consecutive division games for the Rams, including the season finale with the Seahawks, to be played, just like those others this weekend, with the division title hanging in the balance.
The US government is facing a looming deadline to avert a shutdown of federal services amid political divisions over President Obama's healthcare law.
Army Group B planned to begin a relief from 11 June of the armoured divisions facing the Second Army, with infantry divisions, to concentrate the tanks in the Carentan area and avert the danger to Cherbourg.
Despite being caught unprepared by the attack, Sherman rallied his division and conducted an orderly, fighting retreat that helped avert a disastrous Union rout.
The Belgian High Command made at least five appeals for the British to attack the vulnerable left flank of the German divisions between the Scheldt and the Leie to avert disaster.
WASHINGTON — President Obama and congressional Democrats, astonishingly united through recent fiscal fights with Republicans, were showing some divisions as budget negotiations opened on Wednesday between the House and Senate to avert another crisis in coming months.
The division within the Administration appears to be over which approach is most likely to avert all-out war in Sudan.
With his departure, Archbishop Williams will leave behind a church deeply split, with little sign the divisions can be reconciled by any successor, or even that a fundamental schism can be averted.
