Want climate change to be averted?
As a matter of practice (but not necessarily theory), convincing someone that a future crisis must be averted requires a higher level of persuasion than making the case for a policy that is claimed to ameliorate some extant problem.
If a stock buyback manages to jack up the market cap, a takeover could be averted.
Such change may be required to avert an otherwise be a slow, painful decline into persistent freshwater scarcity statewide.
As elsewhere, financial catastrophe seemed to have been averted.
Now, a scheduled January retrial appears to have been averted.
so rushing off to bomb was averted.
I wonder if Americans are unwilling to support the sacrifices that will be required to avert fiscal catastrophe in part because they are less conscious of themselves as components of a national project.
"It is increasingly likely that external assistance will be required to avert a tragedy". Jean-Pierre de Margerie, WFP's country director in North Korea, told the Associated Press that officials had admitted for the first time that they were having to reduce or suspend state rations.
