Sentence examples for try to avert a from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

The three-party governing coalition will try to avert a new financial crisis by returning a vetoed bank reform law to Parliament for a second vote.

Oxfam has launched a £7m emergency appeal to try to avert a humanitarian catastrophe, after failed harvests and widespread drought brought severe hunger and malnutrition across the region.

But after a proposed trip East last month threatened to propel me into the kitchen danger zone, my friend Amy phoned to try to avert a crisis.

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

Then it may be up to the federal mediator George Cohen to keep the sides talking to try to avert an end to talks that would result in the N.F.L.'s first work stoppage since 1987.

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

You would have thought we were trying to avert a nuclear catastrophe, not trying to find a system of press regulation".

Compared to the task of helping guide an often unwieldly institution, trying to avert a global energy crisis might have seemed an easier task.