Sentence examples for possible to avert a from inspiring English sources

"Officials are doing everything possible to avert a region-wide power blackout," he said.

He had argued that he had done everything possible to avert a showdown, only to be frustrated by Democratic intransigence.

It is still possible to avert a new slaughter here, but only if there is a major international effort — involving the United Nations, Egypt, China and Europe as well as the United States — to ensure that the peace agreement is followed and that President Bashir will pay a price for attacking the south.

While the most acute real estate challenge is to find office and rehearsal space, performance sites are also in short supply, arts administrators say, although it has usually been possible to avert a crisis by staggering performance schedules and through other creative juggling.

Hawking and the American cosmologist James B. Hartle have proposed that it may be possible to avert a beginning to time by making it go imaginary (in the sense of the mathematics of complex numbers) instead of letting it suddenly appear or disappear.

Only if the minorities and other groups that the regime has relied on for decades feel assured that they, too, have a future in post-Assad Syria will it be possible to avert a civil war after the fall of the regime, one that could be even longer and bloodier than the one now underway.

Alternatively we speculate and suggest that it may be possible to avert collapse by adopting a different strategy of removing selection pressures against shallow-water adapted AA and AB fish.

This finding backed up a statement from the train drivers' union, Aslef, that Mr Martin had done everything possible to avert the accident.

The union's acting general secretary, Keith Norman, said that on-board data recording equipment made it clear that Mr Martin had done everything possible to avert the accident.

But nor, of course, can we do less than everything possible to avert another 9/11, and that's where things get murky.

If enough of them can join the Democrats and ignore the bleats of the Tea Party, it may still be possible to avert calamity.