Sentence examples for seeks to avert the from inspiring English sources

Over the next three decades, another 1m residents are expected to live in the Greater Vancouver region, adding more cars, bicycles and lorries to roads that are already struggling to serve the existing 2.3m residents.A proposal by Vancouver's mayor and 20 of the 22 other local governments in the region seeks to avert the snarl-up.

And as the adversaries labored, so also did those members of the faculty seeking to avert the collision.

The fact ripples across Europe as a massive set of European Commission projects seek to avert the tide.

The pilots' union, and trade groups representing large airlines and regional carriers, filed a suit on Friday seeking to avert the furloughs.

The Police Department has an unfortunate history of failing to comply with court rulings, like this one, that seek to avert the potential abuse of its power.

Had Denver not defeated the Clippers for the second time this season, it would have been playing tonight's game seeking to avert the longest losing streak in the history of American professional team sports.

A report prepared for a state commission that has been seeking to avert the plant closure noted that "G.M. accounted for only 10 percent of the plant's production last year and an average of 15.4 percent between 2001 and 2009".

Either they are addicted, in which case they are seeking to avert the negative consequences of withdrawal, or they are not addicted, in which case they are seeking the positive effects of intoxication.

Although Mr Darling this week sought to avert the Commons revolt by offering a threshold of £85 a week, a series of Labour MPs stood up to express their dissatisfaction.

After Baltimore officials made the wrenching decision to close three fire companies later this summer, the City Council initially sought to avert the cuts with a new money-raising strategy: it passed a resolution this month urging the administration to explore selling ads on the city's fire trucks.

This is a tacit acknowledgment that hospital chiefs were seeking to avert the one thing that strikes fear into their hearts: the spread of price controls.Because of the creeping expansion of Medicare and Medicaid, the publicly funded health-care schemes for the elderly and the poor, the government already pays over half the bills at the average American hospital.