Sometime you just need backup to avert a pushy host, someone to mix you that non-alcoholic drink or someone to change the subject before the host insists...again...again
Just make sure to avert your gaze to someone else after a few seconds so you don't freak people out.
Shouldn't these critical questions be addressed by someone in authority to avert a future catastrophe?
Someone needs to change the nature of the game to avert the risk of disaster.
Friends are like handkerchiefs: everybody needs them, but the sight of someone asking for one is so mortifyingly vulnerable that you want to avert your eyes from the whole mess.
The film gently asserts the possibility that the humanities hold the key to understanding an alien culture – that speaking someone else's language, literally and metaphorically, might be what's required to avert violent disaster.
In the worst-case scenario someone is dying because that data wasn't made available or an opportunity to avert environmental catastrophe is missed.
On the Fed, Yellen has built a reputation as a "dove" — someone who is typically more concerned about keeping interest rates low to reduce unemployment than about raising them to avert high inflation.
Negotiations to avert a takeover are ongoing.
Urgent action was needed to avert crisis.
