Sentence examples for try to avert from inspiring English sources

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

General McChrystal recently tightened rules on airstrikes to try to avert civilian deaths.

It is a potential crisis the negotiators will try to avert.

Senate leaders remain engaged in talks to try to avert a rules fight that many lawmakers fear could prove disruptive.

World leaders flew into South Korea last night to meet and try to avert an international "currency war".

So it went throughout the area, as accommodations were made to try to avert brownouts or blackouts.

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

Stalinism held that the enemies of socialism within and without Russia would try to avert the final victory of the Revolution.

But if even a remote danger is grave, as this one is, it can make sense to try to avert it.

Game 2 is Thursday night, with Jaime Garcia of the Cardinals scheduled to face Colby Lewis as the Rangers try to avert a second straight World Series disappointment.

This week alone, as Air France and Philippine Airlines were hit by strikes, talks were being held to try to avert industrial action at Britain's Thomas Cook Airlines.