Sentence examples for to avert attack from inspiring English sources

To Iran's leaders, going back on such security decisions would be akin to giving up the nation's capabilities to avert attack.

The questions underlying the commission's review are whether any measures could have been taken to avert attack on the Cole and whether anyone in the chain of command should be held responsible for security lapses.

The attack is seen as a wakeup call for Germany's security and intelligence services, after the country appeared to have previously been able to avert attacks of the kind seen in Belgium and France.

Helping to avert an attack could restore some of its prestige.

Asked whether war was inevitable, Mr. Aziz said it would take a "miracle" to avert an attack.

Nevertheless, many of their 30 recommendations carried the implication that more could have been done to avert the attack.

While the F.B.I. has been praised for helping to catch one of the bombing suspects, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Congressional Republicans have raised questions about whether the bureau missed a chance to avert the attack.

Police officers killed five Macedonian Albanian rebels today and seized illegal weapons in a raid that the interior minister said was intended to avert an attack on the capital, Skopje.

The resignation of the analyst -- who monitored terrorist threats in the region for the Defense Intelligence Agency -- raised new questions on Capitol Hill about whether the Pentagon and intelligence agencies could have done more to avert the attack on the Cole, which killed 17 sailors and wounded 39 on Oct. 12.

According to NEMA, the explosion at the prayer ground happened as people were lining up to be searched before entering the area, a measure designed to avert an attack.

Because the U.S. military focused solely on gathering intelligence to avert another attack, it did not concern itself with whether the evidence it collected was admissible in a court of law.