Sentence examples for try and avert from inspiring English sources
The first day of talks to try and avert two planned Tube strikes by London Underground (LU) workers over job cuts has ended without agreement.
The army has been placing sandbags to try and avert the flooding of the Pingewood electricity distribution facility after the Kennet canal bursts its banks.
Talks are to be held at the conciliation service Acas on Friday to try and avert another strike next week, which is set to last three days from 21 00 BST next Monday.
The good thing is, Parliament having a say over Article 50 gives us the chance use their massive concern for what everyone thinks to try and avert catastrophe.
Meng's detention comes at a time of tension between Washington and Beijing, with both sides engaged in negotiations to try and avert an all-out trade war between the two economic superpowers.
Similarly, conservative talk show host and blogger Hugh Hewitt tweeted that the "tug of war by MSM to try and avert attention from murder of Amb and Marines and Middle East meltdown appalling but very revealing".
In January, DTRA, a Pentagon agency charged with a wide range of security tasks, including trying to spot and avert a possible bioterror threat, laid out the challenge: Find a radically faster and more accurate way to identify the species and genes in raw DNA.
World leaders flew into South Korea last night to meet and try to avert an international "currency war".
The driver, a 57-year-old Stockport man called John Axon, ordered the fireman Ron Scanlon to jump to safety, but as the train hurtled downhill towards Chapel-en-le-Frith, Axon himself clung to the boiling footplate to warn the Doves Hole signalman to clear the track and try to avert tragedy.
Even if the alert was raised at the weekend, the physician would thus have at least 1 day to react and try to avert hospitalization or an impending event by pre-emptive therapy.
Strangelove when Group Captain Lionel Mandrake uses a payphone to try and call the president to avert nuclear disaster, but they won't take a collect call.
