Sentence examples for been to avert from inspiring English sources

It also explains why only 54 countries recognise Kosovo's independence.The greatest success of Kosovo has been to avert a Serb exodus.

In fact, as I've written on a number of occasions, recent experience pretty conclusively shows that Friedman's claims about how easy it would have been to avert depression were all wrong.

The new Hammers ownership team revealed their first achievement had been to avert the need to raise £20million in the next two transfer windows to keep the club afloat - £8million in January and £12million in the summer.

Landsbanki's chief executive, Sigurjón Árnason, the architect of Icesave, explained in early 2007 how easy it had been to avert a wholesale funding crisis by turning to UK savers: "What we considered a permanent solution was simply not being as dependent on the financial markets.

Though the end of Larsen B and the Holocene epoch portend global catastrophe, Congress' reaction to the pending disaster has been to avert its gaze away from it.

The idea is to avert similar disputes in future.

The country's response, though, was to avert its eyes.

From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them.

If America is to avert disaster it must give Palestinians hope in a peace worth having.

In 2009, his mission was to avert the worst of the financial crisis.

An overriding imperative in the United States, he says, should be to avert a drastic economic slowdown.