Sentence examples for might be averted from inspiring English sources

"If they are warned, tragedies might be averted.

Corporate profits shriveled, but a brightening mood among consumers implied a recession might be averted.

On one hand, war just might be averted if the inspectors, at work for two months now, turn up nothing.

Some tragedies might be averted when caring parents are able to intervene, but college students are adults and have privacy rights.

If the parties cannot reach an agreement in the next two days, it is unclear how a shutdown might be averted.

The immediate crisis might be averted, but North Korea might then respond by attacking South Korean patrol boats near the border between the two Koreas.

Estate taxes might threaten the viability of the business, an outcome that might well be averted by acting before the end of this year.

That would leave a shard of hope that civil war in Iraq might still be averted.

The agency held out hope that a third global food crisis in five years might yet be averted.

But the US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that even if Bin Laden were extradited, a military campaign might not be averted as his organisation was still in place.

The fact that the economy expanded at all, even by a tiny margin, sowed hopes that a recession might yet be averted.