Sentence examples for going to avert from inspiring English sources

Are you going to avert a mass shooting?

"This is going to avert literally hundreds of thousands of teacher layoffs," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday.

"With president Falwell's bold leadership, we're going to avert something of that magnitude should evil like that ever come to this campus," Butler said.

"We have received commitments for the $7.5 million, and we feel comfortable to say we're going to avert this crisis," said Nicholas A. Spano, a Republican state senator who was thanked by Mayor Spencer, also a Republican, for his role in the plan.

"It is a recognition that going forward, all major emitters need to take ambitious and binding emission reduction commitments if we're going to avert runaway climate change".

The thought of politics fills him with horror for developments probably too far gone to avert.

"None of this is going to help avert any of the dangers that the president mentioned in his Sunday speech, that Israel faces".

As we work to avert the death of this small planet we're going to need some good, true news.

World leaders must go to Copenhagen to avert the "grave danger" of the treaty negotiations falling apart, he argued.

Thanks to this pattern of loud assertions and muted or suppressed retractions, the American public probably believes that we went to war to avert an immediate threat -- just as it believes that Saddam had something to do with Sept. 11.

"There is a very common mind-set right now which holds that all that we're going to need to do to avert the large-scale planetary catastrophes upon us is make slightly different shopping decisions," said Alex Steffen, the executive editor of Worldchanging.com, a Web site devoted to sustainability issues.