Sentence examples for intended to avert from inspiring English sources

The move was intended to avert any conflicts of interest.

It's that scenario, I assume, that Obama's hardline approach is intended to avert.

The offer was intended to avert an incursion by Turkey's military into Iraq's Kurdish region to fight the rebels.

They were protesting austerity measures intended to avert a default on the $132 billion public sector debt and economic collapse.

This apparent "olive branch" may actually be a Trojan horse intended to avert government regulation of drug prices.

It was the second emergency purchase this week intended to avert what the administration is now calling famine conditions.

"It is precisely this that we intend to avert by means of the legal protection we are seeking, while at the same time trying to protect the image and honour, both of our father and, in general, of our family".

Rousseau's account intends to avert the evils of factions by structural elements of the original contract.

Mr. Browder's doomsday scene was averted in 2009 when the International Monetary Fund announced a trillion-dollar balance sheet intended to avoid the kind of crisis he laid out.

Mr. Rumsfeld's comments came after a day of talks with Indian leaders intended to help avert war with Pakistan.

Residents, on the other hand, say they fear that police assurances of minimal looting are disingenuous, intended only to avert panic and restrain itchy trigger fingers.