Sentence examples for avoided a disaster from inspiring English sources

"We avoided a disaster," Latrell Sprewell said.

It does sound like a bad movie, but you handled the situation with aplomb, kept your composure and avoided a disaster at the dinner.

Yes, we avoided a disaster thanks to Messrs. Bernanke, Paulson (yes, even him) and Geithner, but it is too soon to expect a full recovery in activity.

President Obama's swift response to the McChrystal interview in Rolling Stone avoided a disaster that could have crippled his Administration.

"I'm trying to avoid a disaster," he said in an interview in his office Wednesday.

Military officers in Tel Aviv count the calories to avoid a disaster.

He acknowledged that "serious technical difficulties" had developed and urged the council to take the appropriate steps "to avoid a disaster" that would tarnish the country's image.

"I think, on balance, it was very much the right thing to do, and it increases the chance of a successful agreement, and it increases the chances of avoiding a disaster," Mr. Clinton said.

The aim is to boost resources to avoid a disaster like the Sars outbreak, which saw 8,000 people in 37 countries fall ill with a respiratory illness that killed one in 10 patients in 2003.

The New York City Board of Elections, which runs one of the nation's most trouble-plagued voting systems, has been scrambling to try to avoid a disaster in the unusually close and crowded primary elections on Tuesday.

More than 1,000 police officers trained in the desert Monday for the operation, aiming to avoid a disaster like the last such evacuation, in 2006, when more than 200 people were injured as thousands protested the demolition of nine houses in the outpost of Amona that were also on private land.