Sentence examples for disaster was avoided from inspiring English sources

If it goes through, many commentators will declare that disaster was avoided.

Although damaging sea water seeped into some of the nation's finest acres, disaster was avoided – just.

"Because today is Sunday and shops are closed, a huge disaster was avoided," Public Works Minister Abdulkadir Akcan said in Ankara, the capital.

If the experimental data leads to cancellation, the sponsors should be consoled that the bad publicity resulting from a disaster was avoided and a life was not, literally, thrown away.

An environmental disaster was avoided only because winds and currents shifted soon after the leak began, carrying the fuel away from remote islands where large colonies of sea lions, marine iguanas and blue-footed boobies live.

If disaster is avoided, it will strengthen the hand of fiscal conservatives everywhere.

It is already running a hefty deficit and carrying a heavy pension burden.If disaster is avoided, it will be because Houston has reached a critical mass where employers keep moving in because others are already there.

Had the United States not invaded Iraq under a claim of international law that many other countries rejected, or had the Guantánamo disaster been avoided by the exercise of wiser judgment, it would be relatively easy to conclude that the Supreme Court was right to pull us back from too rapid an entrance into an international order that undercuts our sovereignty.

One of the reasons for this is that claim 4 not only notes how far off moral enhancement of any new kind is likely to be, but refers to a 'moral enhancement of the magnitude required to ensure that' disaster is avoided.

How can these sorts of disasters be avoided?

Put simply, the deal ensures that two disasters are avoided: The disaster of Iran getting a nuclear bomb and the disaster of going to war with Iran.