Sentence examples for has averted for from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ban's remarks, in a speech at a United Nations conference, came as diplomatic energy was intensifying over a Russian proposal to secure Syria's chemical munitions, which has averted, for the time being, an American military strike threatened by President Obama, who said in a speech on Tuesday night that he would give diplomacy more time.

It also would have averted for now a collapse of the auto industry, and shifted difficult decisions to the Obama administration.

Fortunately, here in the U.S., we have the Endangered Species Act, which has averted extinction for 99.9percentt of the plants and animals that it protects.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 13 April 2010 - Three months after the devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti and left its mark on over a million children, UNICEF today reports that the unprecedented humanitarian response has averted a worse crisis for children – but warns that there is much still to be done, not least as Haiti approaches the annual rainy season.

The IMF/euro-zone E110bn ($145bn) bail-out has averted a foreign-debt crisis for now, so the prime minister, George Papandreou, will concentrate on an austerity blitz aimed at reducing the public-sector deficit from a monumental 9.5% of GDP in 2010.

Greece has averted a catastrophic default, at least for now, securing a second international bailout and a deal with private creditors to reduce its mountain of debt to more manageable levels.

That has averted a potential chain reaction of solvency problems for Greek, French and German banks.

"Every single government has averted its eyes".

Though they have averted disaster for the time being, their reputation has suffered for even considering it.

For the rest of us, we have averted our eyes for too long.

That would have averted the need for this year's patchwork budget, which will almost certainly need redoing in a few months.