Sentence examples for bid to avert from inspiring English sources

But in a bid to avert industrial action, Mr Hunt is expected to offer significant concessions.

Talks will resume today in a bid to avert further strikes by London Underground (LU) workers.

The national government resigned in what it said was a bid to avert more bloodshed.

Over the past year bank supervisors, central bankers and national treasuries have queued up to bail out European banks' shareholders and bondholders in a bid to avert panic.

David Cameron last night launched an 11th-hour bid to avert a backbench revolt over the Government's support for military personnel and veterans.

Granada Media and Carlton Communications have made an eleventh-hour bid to avert being forced to hive off their sales houses ahead of a merger.

The Fife outfit are bidding to avert liquidation following a winding-up order for a £134,000 tax bill.

Equal pay was the most notable, slipped past a reluctant Roy Jenkins in a late-night bid in 1970 to avert a backbench revolt.

To avert a hostile bid from the Italian firm, the French government announced that it would seek to broker a merger between Suez and state-owned Gaz de France, creating a group with annual sales of €64 billion ($76 billion).Italian politicians were outraged.

The investment bank JP Morgan yesterday raised its rescue takeover bid for Bear Stearns from $2 to $10 a share to try to avert a lengthy row with disgruntled investors in the crisis-hit Wall Street institution.

A pledge by Palestinian leaders to renew their quixotic bid for UN recognition and an end to Israeli-occupation has sent US officials scrambling to avert a diplomatic crisis after months of mounting tensions in the region.