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

The government said at the weekend that it would intervene in the BA dispute in a bid to avert a series of strikes by cabin crew.

A law reforming oversight of doping was passed in a last-minute bid to avert a ban, but Kenyan competitors face extra individual tests if they wish to participate in the Games.

Dame Barbara Hakin, the NHS's deputy chief executive, said the service had "pulled out all the stops" and taken unprecedented steps to prepare for winter in a bid to avert a crisis.

Pressed for details, the firm says that "in 2011, the financial support that Huawei provided to customers came to 5.86% of total contract sales," a figure not specified.At the end of June, Chinese and European officials met in a bid to avert a trade war over subsidies.

The creation of Offa was inserted into the higher education bill at the eleventh hour in a bid to avert a backbench rebellion from Labour MPs who feared the new top-up fees would put poorer students off going to university.

The minister made a bid to avert strikes with a fresh deal, including an 11% rise in basic pay and overtime pay after 7pm on Saturday evenings.

"We would have to sacrifice other expenses, like some school supplies for the kids". Higher utility bills could become a reality for Venegas and his fellow residents if Washington decides to curb tax exemptions on municipal bond interest as part of a bid to avert the fiscal cliff, a move that House speaker John Boehner has said he's willing to consider.

The two devolved governments jointly drafted the amendments in a bid to avert what they term a "power grab" over their responsibilities.

Terra Firma and Citigroup were locked in talks last night in a last-ditch bid to avert the start of a trial in New York, which will decide if the US bank misled Guy Hands' private equity firm over the buyout of EMI Music.

Trucks carrying food and other desperately needed supplies began entering a trio of besieged Syrian towns on Monday, in a bid to avert what aid officials had warned was a looming humanitarian disaster.