Sentence examples for was averted through from inspiring English sources

Disaster was averted through a stroke of luck and a healthy dose of goodwill.

Yes, a near meltdown in 2008 was averted through collective action -- not least via the liquidity of the Federal Reserve and the largess of taxpayers in Europe and the United States.

Five deaths were not prevented, but widespread illness and death was averted through early recognition of threats and prompt intervention.

The disaster was averted through the actions of Norman Borlaug, an American scientist who had been working at the Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT International Centrere for the Improvement of Maize and Wheat) in Mexico.

Past rules disputes have usually been averted through such negotiations.

Ultimately, layoffs were averted through an eleventh-hour agreement by the city, the Council and the teachers' union.

He went on to reaffirm his belief that "this terrible tragedy" could not have been averted through more aggressive steps by the city.

In that case, the city called for the layoff of 4,000 teachers and paraprofessionals, but the cutbacks were averted through retirement incentives.

Today will be the last day on the job for 1,800 state employees, a sweeping layoff that Gov. John G. Rowland had hoped could be averted through union concessions when he proposed it last month to help Connecticut close its huge budget gap.

Extrapolating from Johnson's known tendency to "split the difference" when making important decisions, Mr. Greenfield draws a harrowing portrait of his handling of the Vietnam War and the Cuban missile crisis, writing that nuclear catastrophe over the Cuba confrontation is averted through sheer "blind luck".

So far, the doomsayers have been proved wrong: tragedy has been averted through better technologies, the invention of artificial fertilisers, improved medicines and other rescuing remedies.