Sentence examples for might avert a from inspiring English sources
It might avert a future split (st itch in a intime; cosh2).
A few well-chosen words, or even miraculously some deeds, such as approving much-delayed tax reforms, might avert a disaster.* "Is Brazil Next?", by John Williamson.
It hopes a transformation like the one that China itself has achieved since the death of Mao Zedong might avert a sudden collapse.
We might avert a Great Depression, but we are all going to feel a lot less well off at the end of the process.
But investors' relief that a political compromise might avert a default on government debt was soon tempered by the realization that a fiscal deal was not yet at hand, Nathaniel Popper reports in DealBook.
Britain hinted that a neutral country should offer sanctuary to Mr Taylor, who faces war-crimes charges in neighbouring Sierra Leone, if that might avert a bloody battle for the capital, Monrovia.See article: George Bush goes to AfricaNigeria endured a general strike.
But the hope that the N.F.L. might avert an all-out labor war is tempered by a dose of reality: the two sides remain so far apart on the economic issues at the core of the negotiation — how to divide annual revenue and a new rookie compensation system — that it seems unlikely a deal could be finished by the Friday deadline.
Should mankind ever undertake the long-haul voyages through the vast emptiness of space in search of alien life, having smell-free clothes might avert any embarrassing contacts with extraterrestrials who have noses.
If a taxpayer has an unusually large charitable contribution or medical deduction, for example, or another matter that needs explaining, then attaching a statement and perhaps a copy of relevant documents to the return might avert questions or an audit, he said.
Bowing out now might avert what could be an embarrassing political defeat for Rubio in his home state.
The state might avert the worst of such a scenario, the governor suggested, if the federal government comes up with $6.9 billion that he claims it is owed, either through fixing accounting errors and shortchanging, or through the rejiggering of federal formulas to benefit the state.
