Sentence examples for to avert something from inspiring English sources

"Everybody was in agreement about trying to avert something disastrous from happening," said Jumaane D. Williams, a city councilman from Brooklyn, who called top aides to Mr. Bloomberg on Thursday night.

The WSJ highlights a speech by Jaime Caruana, general manager of the Bank for International Settlements, warning of the dangers of easy money and the need to raise rates now to avert … something or other.

"For the first time, we are not just averting something unpleasant, but we are bringing positive change," Mr. Samaras said in a televised address.

These basic facts have been established for decades, and every President since George Bush senior has vowed to do something to avert catastrophe.

But you also want to be careful not to rule anything out, partly so that the GOP understands that it may face a grand fizzle, partly because it may be necessary to do something to avert default.

I have always thought that if I can forecast a military coup in Egypt or in any other country then so can the head of the secret police and he will do something to avert it (unless, of course, he is leading the coup himself).

We urgently need to do – and I mean actually do – something radical to avert a global catastrophe.

With neither technology nor politics offering any way out, Emmott concludes: "The problem is us … We urgently need to do – and I mean actually do – something radical to avert a global catastrophe.

It can, if it wishes, do something to try to avert a new plunge into global recession, which has become a real fear.

But it is critical that we learn from the financial crisis and put in place reforms to avert a repeat of 2008 or something even worse.

This was written, Ozick reminds us, before the ultimate horror of Frank's murder -- something from which posterity prefers to avert its eyes.