Sentence examples for but failed to avert from inspiring English sources

Stocks advanced slightly on Friday but failed to avert the worst week for markets since June, as investors turned their attention from the presidential election to the coming negotiations over impending tax increases and spending cuts.

Mr. Biden postponed his original departure date in July to help hammer out the agreement that forestalled default on some obligations but failed to avert a downgrade of America's AAA credit rating by Standard & Poor's.

A general amnesty was declared on Aug. 16, 1979, but this move failed to avert violence.

But he clearly failed to avert G.E.'s fall into a precarious state to begin with.

It may not be the president's fault when things go wrong, but usually expressing regret for having failed to avert a bad outcome is better than not acknowledging it, blaming it on bad advice, or claiming it was unavoidable.

He thinks they should be prosecuted.Globocrats failed to avert the crisis, but they rallied once it struck.

The crusade, as he called it, failed to avert the plan, but the showdown precipitated a political crisis, contributing to the Socialists' electoral downfall in 2004.

But party leaders and police officers in Urumqi failed to avert disaster the night of July 5 even though government officials say the police knew as early as 1 a.m. that day that Uighurs were planning to hold a protest.

"The government can be said to have failed to avert Railtrack's insolvency but that cannot be said to be a fault in the government unless one can postulate a duty on government to have funded Railtrack without limit and without condition, a hopeless proposition".

Mr. Sants acknowledged that flawed regulatory procedures failed to avert the collapse of the bank, and he hired staff to improve supervision.

They will make at least some of the world better able to pay the costs of adapting to the climate change it has failed to avert.