Sentence examples for seems to avert the from inspiring English sources

Nuclear Armageddon is a tough twist to top; on "24" Jack Bauer always seems to avert the worst just in the nick of time.

True, the rescue of Bear Stearns seemed to avert the implosion of the financial system.

Yet Leibniz often seems to avert such a conclusion by appeal to his idea of "preestablished harmony", and this is possible because he himself interprets this idea in two different ways.

Patz said he no longer greeted her on the street and seemed to avert his eyes.

As I like to point out, the conventional wisdom on these things seems to be that to avert the danger of future benefit cuts, we must act now to cut future benefits.

Politicians now seem close to averting the lapse of the Highway Trust Fund, which uses federal gas and diesel taxes to help states pay for transit repairs.

While the Weinstein brothers purchased Dogma from their parent company to deflect scandal from Disney, it seems to have done little to avert the row around a film that has attracted more than its fair share of controversy.

The deal, struck with surprising speed after the collapse 11 days ago of negotiations between BMW and a British venture capital firm, Alchemy Partners, seemed at least for now to avert the threatened closing of Rover's Longbridge plant near Birmingham in the British Midlands.

One Occupy organiser feels that would be sufficient cause to call the movement's supporters onto the streets.It would seem in China's interests, too, to avert the occupation by leaving the standing committee's decision vague.

Some tried to avert the calamity here.

The deal to avert the fiscal cliff.