It vastly expanded the volume of lending to banks, thus helping to avoid a more serious credit crisis.
That does not seem too high a price to pay for helping to avoid dangerous climate change.
Facebook's motion is likely to be granted, helping to avoid the potential for conflicting decisions by different judges.
"This will lead to significant benefits for the UK, including helping to avoid health impacts," it said.
But overall, its chances both of saving Brazil money and of helping to avoid global warming look rather better now than they did the first time round.
But Mr Kuchma deserves credit for helping to avoid a violent end to the crisis, and for dampening wild secessionist talk that briefly flared up in the east.
To some degree, he has done so, by helping to avoid a recession for almost 10 years, the longest stretch of consistent growth on record.
"This report would save the city money by tracking workplace injuries and illnesses and helping to avoid them in the future," Councilman Joseph P. Addabbo Jr., above, said.
"It will show that the country is prepared to do its part in helping to avoid the worst impacts of a changing climate".
Dahan's film centres on the former Grace Kelly's vital role in helping to avoid a coup in 1962, when Monaco and France were in dispute.
Those seats are wrapped in sun-reflective leather — an innovation first offered by BMW — that significantly reduces surface temperatures in sunlight, helping to avoid roasted thighs on blazing afternoons.
