Sentence examples for effort to avert a from inspiring English sources

Dr. Gosnell offered her $500, she said, possibly in an effort to avert a lawsuit.

His lawyers had been in plea negotiations with prosecutors in an effort to avert a trial.

"We believe the union has made every effort to avert a strike," Mr. Altman said.

Many liberals are uneasy about involvement in another military conflict, even as they applaud the effort to avert a massacre by Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi's forces.

The move was considered an effort to avert a legal confrontation with a Senate committee that issued subpoenas this week seeking the information.

American, the unit of AMR, has negotiated $1.8 billion in annual cost reductions from employees in an effort to avert a bankruptcy protection filing.

Until Thursday, Western governments had taken slightly different approaches to Croatia in an effort to avert an offensive.

The Long Island Power Authority outlined a plan last week to cope with strained power supplies and possible blackouts this summer in an effort to avert an energy crisis like the one in California.

It has emerged that Australian ministers and diplomats have visited 19 countries that provide committee members, including Portugal, Japan and Jamaica, in recent months in a desperate lobbying effort to avert an internationally embarrassing blacklisting for the ailing reef.

The merger plan was considered crucial to Western Union's efforts to avert a bankruptcy filing.

Intensive efforts to avert a full-blown crisis took place in Strasbourg last night and are to continue today.