"Everybody was in agreement about trying to avert something disastrous from happening," said Jumaane D. Williams, a city councilman from Brooklyn, who called top aides to Mr. Bloomberg on Thursday night.
If you feel your eyes averting to something else in the room, catch yourself and focus back on your teacher.
The WSJ highlights a speech by Jaime Caruana, general manager of the Bank for International Settlements, warning of the dangers of easy money and the need to raise rates now to avert … something or other.
The meaning of these isolated cases is entirely unclear, but Mr. Velasquez-Manoff follows the tenuous thread of possibility out to the horizon: Possibly, autism can be averted with something "as simple as a probiotic given to Mom" during pregnancy, he notes.
The history of environmental politics shows that people act most effectively when they have something to fear, but, while averting the threat, also find something to love.
What I do remember is fumbling around with my phone in front of security, saying something polite to her while averting my eyes, her saying something equally polite back to me, and then taking one selfie with her before being shooed away by her people.
When this failed, he blurted out something about averting the impending economic meltdown by convening a government commission, ostensibly to study the urgent crisis and perhaps issue a recommendation sometime in the future.
So at least the Flames achieved something this week, beyond just "averting disaster when Colorado matched their offer to O'Reilly".
These basic facts have been established for decades, and every President since George Bush senior has vowed to do something to avert catastrophe.
But you also want to be careful not to rule anything out, partly so that the GOP understands that it may face a grand fizzle, partly because it may be necessary to do something to avert default.
