Sentence examples for not averted from inspiring English sources

Some also found it funny, but I found it melancholy, as it explored paths not taken, disasters not averted, sadnesses never accommodated.

Most health officials now agree that the epidemic could have been contained earlier, if not averted, by a more robust and better-organized international response.

The Great Recession was not averted, as the economy plunged in late 2008 and early 2009, with consequences still felt in a subpar labor market.

Conflict in the Wa-controlled areas, if it is not averted, could cause a ramping up of drug trafficking across Asia and beyond as the Wa government and other militias seek cash to buy weapons.

With no time left to negotiate anything more substantive, they simply delayed by two months the sequester — $1.2 trillion in spending cuts that, if not averted, could cost the economy an estimated seven hundred and fifty thousand jobs this year.

And some onstage violence is not averted: One character audibly snaps the neck of another in combat, and the climax includes Macduff holding the severed head of Macbeth for all to see.

Of course, there is good reason for any business to be concerned about 2013 — many economists agree that if the simultaneous tax increases and spending cuts scheduled to take effect at the beginning of the year (the "fiscal cliff") aren't averted or adjusted, the country will plummet into another recession.

Crisis, if not revolution, averted.

The deal had not only averted bankruptcy and secured Athens' position in the eurozone but placed it on a path of economic recovery.

In sum, the proposal would not have averted proliferation in the short run, because that risk always was low, but instead would have fostered it in the long run — a classic example of domestic politics undermining national security.

But for the next four hours, Froome demonstrated just how much he has grown as a rider in the last two seasons, and when he rolled into Bagneres-de-Bigorre with his main challengers the danger was not just averted, it was winked at.