Sentence examples similar to readiness to avert from inspiring English sources

They asserted NATO's readiness to fight; averted the danger of Kandahar city falling into the hands of the resurgent Taliban; and forced the insurgents to revert to hit-and-run attacks plus suicide or roadside bombings.

Negotiations to avert a takeover are ongoing.

Urgent action was needed to avert crisis.

You almost want to avert your eyes.

Staff act to avert or minimise harm (containment).

War preparations continued as did diplomatic efforts to avert hostilities.

Could anything have been done to avert these failures?

Yet no one understands how to avert spontaneous preterm births.

Bruce Cain discusses ways to avert increasing risk of wildfire damages.

Some tried to avert the calamity here.

To avert exhaustion, I might quibble.