Sentence examples for could not avert from inspiring English sources

Joint action among central banks, for example, postponed but could not avert the baht's collapse.

The government's far-reaching crackdown could not avert Syria's descent into civil war.

But even the brilliance of its mirrored corridors, twinkling trees and shimmering heirloom chandeliers could not avert the bankruptcy blackout of Tavern on the Green.

Riyad Mahrez converted a penalty for Leicester but the champions could not avert a fifth defeat from six Premier League away matches this season.

The economy drives election results; Mr Bush wrecked the economy; the Democrats succeeded in staving off a depression; but voters will blame them anyway for the recession they could not avert.

Yet even so, he could not avert the chaos, the grim fiasco of his grandiose supermarkets' empty shelves, of stampedes – in which people were trampled to death – for basic commodities when they did arrive.

Clinton couldn't control himself and Ken Starr couldn't avert his eyes.

And there, as we printed the photos and stuck them down, we couldn't avert our eyes.

The minister of finance — the son-in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — couldn't avert the slide, delivering a halting speech that did little to boost confidence.

When they first came out, Brokencyde were so uniquely terrible that you couldn't avert your gaze.

The report cites examples of the Roman and Mayan empires, which were sophisticated but couldn't avert their own demise.