Sentence examples for it narrowly averted from inspiring English sources

Like so many of California's state parks, it narrowly averted being closed during the ongoing state budget crisis.

It narrowly averted them because of a combination of spontaneous conservation and the purchase of emergency power from sources outside the state.

It expects the city's power supply to be adequate next summer, but just barely, a slim margin of error that Con Ed came up against this year, when it narrowly averted blackouts during an extremely hot week in August.

It was the narrowly averted demolition of the dilapidated house in 2011 that helped galvanize Beverly Hills' preservation community and inspired the ordinance.

A life-threatening situation has been narrowly averted; it's a quickly readable scenario that plays on the emotions.

The danger of the Secret Service's failures is not in the narrowly averted disasters; it's in the capacity of those failures to generate even more dangers on their own.

The company's collapse was narrowly averted when it paid a fine of about $1 billion after Trump intervened this year to save the firm at Xi's request.

Then he turned to the momentous issue of how he almost wrote something inaccurate about David Attenborough, which was narrowly averted because "as it happens, last weekend we had staying with us another of the BBC's great figures, its world affairs editor John Simpson", who happily corrected Lawson's mistake.

GREECE'S fragile coalition government only narrowly averted disaster on November 7th when it won parliamentary approval for a drastic new austerity package.

A simian hissy-fit was narrowly averted when Payne quickly added that it was the romping alleged "diaries" entitled The Insider as opposed to the former News of the World and Mirror editor's journalistic output that had sparked his ambition.

When the debt went unpaid, the wealthy Sampoerna family wanted to buy it, according to a banker, but a sale was narrowly averted in 2007 when Hashim refinanced the loan.