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But will it be sufficient to avert defeat in Afghanistan?

Separate electorate seats, as well as special guarantees of Muslim "autonomy" or "veto powers" in dealing with sensitive religious issues, were hoped to be sufficient to avert civil war or any need for actual partition.

Whether coordinated action by the US authorities and banking institutions will be sufficient to avert a large-scale sell-off on Wall Street this week remains to be seen.

Obama has vowed to veto any such short-term extension, which ratings agencies have said might not be sufficient to avert a downgrading of the United States' AAA credit rating.

Efforts to keep a crucial stretch of the drought-starved Mississippi River open to barge traffic should be sufficient to avert a shipping shutdown, officials from the Army Corps of Engineers and the Coast Guard said Friday.

The court considered the bail and the supporting measures "as being sufficient to avert the risk of flight," it said.

In contrast to humans, the laboratory mouse possesses long telomeres and, even in early generation telomerase-deficient mice, the level of telomere reserve is sufficient to avert telomere-based checkpoint responses and to permit full malignant progression.

"On the other hand," she asked, "who would have ever suspected that for seven years you pilfered the offerings of the church?" She dismissed talk that good deeds were sufficient to avert a prison sentence, and said she regretted that he had not done community service since being ousted as pastor of St. John's in May 2006.

A widely shared article by David Wallace-Wells in New York magazine last month sketching out some worst-case scenarios included an interview with pioneering climate scientist Wally Broecker, now 84, who no longer believes even the most drastic reductions in carbon emissions are sufficient to avert disaster.

New fears about the global economy wiped billions of dollars off European stocks on Monday, as investors remained unconvinced that President George Bush's rescue package was sufficient to avert a recession.

Hospital leadership rapidly acknowledged the concerns in face-to-face meetings, and this was sufficient to avert the strike.