Sentence examples for tried to avert from inspiring English sources

Some tried to avert the calamity here.

A woman wearing a black hijab tried to avert her eyes.

But Mr. Cooper said the state has tried to avert the breakdowns.

Clement tried to avert this union by investing Count Tancred of Lecce with the fief of Sicily.

His firstborn son and namesake was taken from him by the war he had so desperately tried to avert.

She screamed on the street and howled and writhed on the London underground as commuters tried to avert their eyes.

Syria's Bashar al-Assad busily woos European opinion to try to avert military strikes.

Hurricane Sandy was battering the region, and Mr. Alacha was trying to avert a disaster.

What concerns the United States most in the region is trying to avert war between Israel and Iran.

There were talks with the reconciliation service Acas yesterday to try to avert action.

And so, after a decade of trying to avert another crash, we could have one.