Sentence examples for needed to avert a from inspiring English sources

The airlift operation alone is costing more than $21 million a month, and though 12,000 tons have been shipped into the region in the last three months, more is needed to avert a full-scale catastrophe, U.N. officials say.

Mr. Gaffney said the actions were needed to avert a $111 million budget shortfall next year.

The measure drew 50 votes, including 4 from Democrats, but fell shy of the 60 needed to avert a filibuster.

The bailout is needed to avert a potentially devastating Greek default; Greece must redeem 14.5 billion euros, or $19 billion, in bonds by March 20.

But most economists believe that the economy remains basically healthy and that a slowdown is needed to avert a buildup of inflationary pressures.

While the Legislature convened, ostensibly to approve spending cuts needed to avert a potentially crippling cash crunch, it was largely a day of inaction in the Capitol.

The country's top AIDS doctor described government financing for prevention programs as "ridiculous" and warned that a huge infusion of money was needed to avert an epidemic.

Completing the first step needed to avert an environmental disaster off Italy's coast, salvage experts have emptied the tanks containing most of the fuel aboard the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which capsized on Jan . 13

The heart 10 was needed to avert an endplay, but the spade queen would have been an even better discard since East was sure to have retained a diamond.

He, who worked on China's nuclear weapons programme, said the planned rollout was going too fast to ensure it had the safety and monitoring expertise needed to avert an accident.

The creditors'  governments are thus trapped: to convince sceptical voters to give the bail-out loans, they must claim that they are needed to avert an imminent economic catastrophe; but when they speak in apocalyptic terms, they convince at least some Greek politicians that help will be given, come what may.The communiqué tries to maintain pressure on both Mr Samaras and Mr Papandreou.