Sentence examples for pay to avert from inspiring English sources

In Dostoyevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov," Ivan asks his brother Alyosha to consider the murder of a child and what price he would pay to avert it.

House Democrats, led by Representative David R. Obey of Wisconsin, the departing chairman of the Appropriations Committee, said redirecting the education money, including about $500 million from the competitive grant program called Race to the Top, was a small price to pay to avert as many as 140,000 teacher layoffs this year.

And in the end, that may be the smallest price to pay to avert what could be a devastating political argument against the Democrats' plan: that working-class Americans would be penalized heavily for not buying insurance they say they cannot afford.

The final outcome of the model is a product of the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER), and the ceiling ratio (the threshold value decision-makers are willing to pay to avert a DALY [43]), set at US$360 in this analysis [50].

Based upon our simulation model, three important conclusions can be drawn related to MRSA admission screening: (1) Excluding any financial benefits from averted infections, the choice of strategy depends on the setting, the costs of isolation and the hospital's willingness to pay to avert infection.

Until willingness to pay to avert a DALY exceeds US$400, the null intervention is optimal.

Half of the money came from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which frequently pays to avert housing crises, and the other half came from the Neediest Cases Fund.

Mr. Shelby had insisted that taxpayers not pay for the plan to avert foreclosures, arguing that the vast majority of homeowners who pay their bills should not have to bail out irresponsible borrowers, who might have bought a home that they could not afford, or greedy lenders who made risky loans after loosening underwriting standards.

The Bridgestone/Firestone Corporation will pay $41.5 million to avert state lawsuits over millions of tires recalled last year, a person close to the settlement talks said today.

[C6.] Firestone Seen in Tire Settlement Bridgestone/Firestone is expected to announce today that it will pay $41.5 million to avert lawsuits by states over tires that the company recalled last year.

The Brazilian government is offering federal police officers a 15.8% pay rise to avert a strike during the forthcoming football World Cup.