Sentence examples for used to avert from inspiring English sources

He added that the equity a shareholder may have in the apartment cannot be used to avert or postpone the eviction.

With cuts in state aid and property-tax caps forcing towns and school districts to pare budgets, public-sector unions have lobbied employers to enter the state plan, because savings can be used to avert job losses.

With mechanical saws rumbling on the factory floor next door, Mr. Mundis, 70, and his wife Mary, 67, sat in his office and lamented the $200,000 in retirement savings they had used to avert the company's bankruptcy.

This study documents street-based female sex workers' experiences of client and intimate partners, examines the intersections of violence, alcohol use in condom use, and highlights survival strategies used to avert harm.

While Lincoln admitted that counterfeit-proof was a very "bold claim," he said he was not ready to say what kind of technology would be used to avert copyright piracy.

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has said the so-called extraordinary measures used to avert default after the ceiling is reached will only last for a few weeks.

These data could be used to predict and avert potential failures.

And I think that the government and its various agents of social control have used this to avert our eyes from the way in which the gap between unearned wealth and poverty in this country has become a chasm.

As Isabel Hardman writes at Coffee House, this is one of several strategies the government has been using to try to avert the looming rebellion.

While switching to condoms was undesirable for some men (using condoms is like "licking sugar with the wrapper still on…you cannot taste the sweetness" (A male CHW)), some husbands were willing to use condoms to avert the side effects of hormonal methods: "When I saw that the injection caused her to have stomach problems, she stopped and started using the pill.

The Hepatitis B Disease Burden and Vaccination Model Version 1.2 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was used to estimate hepatitis cases averted for several vaccination strategies, given measured HBsAg seroprevalence [ 18].