Sentence examples for merely to avert from inspiring English sources

The year we strike out boldly not merely to avert national bankruptcy but to say to a new generation that America is still the world's premier land of opportunity.

When David returned in 1998 to write the acerbic finale, he doled out harshly poetic justice to his creations like a man settling scores: the gang ends up in jail after not merely failing to avert a carjacking, but mocking the victim.

But these days, apparently, the Democratic leadership in Congress has much bigger fish to fry than merely trying to avert a global nuclear holocaust.

A vaccine seemed the only hope to avert this catastrophe.

Some are merely killers; others try to avert the war and then regret the bloodbath that follows; still others view the entire war with wit and irony.

The humanitarian catastrophe it was designed to avert has merely been intensified.

This is from c r williams on the post written by our correspondent in Delhi Is it too much to ask economists to try to predict the onset of crises and to avert them, or does economics merely generate 'a boon of new information to pore over and develop new ideas for the future'?

But will it be sufficient to avert defeat in Afghanistan?

A crucial mandate of cognitivist theories is to avert the charge that emotions are merely "subjective".

Suddenly we were being told to avert our gaze, not because the images involved were merely NSFW, but because they were a form of abuse.

Ultimately, Sathya Sai Baba's protracted struggle to avert death demonstrated that, even as a human, he was merely ordinary.