Sentence examples for it narrowly avoided from inspiring English sources

The Titanic was being towed at the beginning of its ill-fated maiden journey and it narrowly avoided a collision with another ocean liner, the New York.

Residents said it narrowly avoided being hit by a bus.

It narrowly avoided collapsing in late 2008 until the German government bailed it out, and today its books are still laden with risk.

It narrowly avoided bankruptcy with a Government loan guarantee, but, he says, needed new Japanese customers for the Tristar to remain viable.

Each also has a culture of financial conservatism: News Corp's came after it narrowly avoided bankruptcy in the early 1990s, Viacom's was instilled by the obsession of its boss, a parsimonious lawyer, with the bottom line.

Luckily for Copenhagen, it narrowly avoided many of the post-war decisions that lead to sprawling, car-dependent places, and continues to invest in attractive, health-promoting urban design today.

It is so eager to snap at the flies attracted to the steaming pile, like iron fillings to a magnet, that it narrowly avoids being spattered with dung.

They are expected to show that it only narrowly avoided busting its £120bn budget by several hundred thousand pounds after trusts were leaned on to do everything they could to make their accounts for 2015-16 look as healthy as possible, leading to claims that "creative accounting" had been used to spare Hunt the political embarrassment of his department busting its budget.

It only narrowly avoided coming sixth behind Ukip.

She obeyed it, and narrowly avoided crashing into a stalled car in the lane she had left.

AIB, which first announced a planned 2,000 redundancies last April, is effectively under State control, although it has narrowly avoided nationalisation.