Sentence examples for failed to avert a from inspiring English sources

This year, however, Bennett failed to avert a gubernatorial primary, and Blackwell, the only successful right-wing politician in the state, repeatedly attacked Taft and other Party leaders.

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.

Rioting brought this city, the country's commercial capital, to a standstill today after talks failed to avert a strike set off by a 50percentt increase in fuel prices.

At that point Moeen had made a more positive impact as a batsman, notably with the memorable last-day century at Headingley that so narrowly failed to avert a series defeat against Sri Lanka.

Economy minister Axel Kicillof, speaking after 11th hour talks with bondholders in New York failed to avert a default, played down the impact it would have on the country's citizens.

He also revealed that in 1996, as a result of incompetence, MI5 had almost failed to avert a planned terrorist bombing campaign in Britain.In this section Comrades in arms A spy sails in from the cold Bringing rights home Being watched It could be him Blackpool as Las Vegas How dare you scold me?

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

After a financial crisis that the Fed failed to avert or predict, in the fourth year of a recovery that continues to disappoint, the Fed has no better defense than to explain what it is doing as clearly as possible.

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.

"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".

As Mats Berdal, a professor at King's College London, points out, the world's leading powers had good reason to think they were "avoiding a Srebrenica"—the massacre of Bosnians which UN forces failed to avert in July 1995.But as the war drags on and NATO strikes more widely, sceptics also feel their case has been bolstered.