Sentence examples for fought to avert from inspiring English sources

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The general's lawyers fought to avert a trial, arguing that the former dictator was too infirm to stand trial, opening the way to more than a year of court appeals.

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But Mr. Romney is by no means in the clear, they said, as he fights to avert a loss in the state where he was born and raised — and where less than three weeks ago he was expected to win handily, before Mr. Santorum's surprise triumphs in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri.

Properly designed, carbon cap and trade can be a powerful tool in the fight to avert the most dangerous consequences of global warming.

He also fostered increased cooperation between Greenpeace and many diverse parts of civil society in the fight to avert catastrophic climate change and promote environmental justice.

The risks of such a move are huge and many countries will fight hard to avert it, pressing instead to buy more time by releasing the €8 billion loan to Athens.

Hillary Clinton, in Kentucky, Fights to Avert a 2-Loss Tuesday By THOMAS KAPLAN May 18 , 2016With two Democratic primaries on Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton was hoping for a victory in Kentucky, but Bernie Sanders was expected to win easily in Oregon.

"Eloise at the Plaza" fills the missing spaces with drearily predictable plot twists and mawkish sentiment -- all the very things Thompson fought so fiercely to avert.

Word of warning: controversially, there are no pineapple chunks available in "Extra Happiness", possibly to avert fights.

Lloyd Blankfein, the head of Goldman Sachs, compared CEOs' fight on Capitol Hill to avert the fiscal cliff to CEOs' contributions to World War II, in an interview with CNBC reporter Eamon Javers.

"You had to avert your eyes, fight off the image, and keep going," she thinks after an elderly visitor is caught drooling.

He said he hoped to avert a similar fight.

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