Sentence examples for was averted without from inspiring English sources
Imagine a planet in which global warming was averted without the periodic need for thousands of people to fly around the world to promise to stop burning fossil fuels.
Previous crises in the 1905-1913 period had been averted without resulting in a Europe-wide war.
And there's some good news: the world can afford to transition to clean energy and climate change can be averted without sacrificing our living standards.
But, he adds, the threat to elephants is part of a much bigger catastrophe which cannot be averted without "active collaboration from a wide range of actors and activists – local populations, scientists, civic groups, corporations, politicians, security forces.
Catastrophic climate change can be averted without sacrificing living standards according to a UN report, which concludes that the transformation required to a world of clean energy is eminently affordable.
She also conjectures that the North might have lost the Civil War, and that both World Wars might have been averted "without the industrial rise of coal-rich Germany".
The bad news, however, is that the world's politicians remain a pretty mediocre bunch, with few exceptions, which means that the next global crisis cannot be averted without addressing the world's leadership deficit.
Danger, for now, was averted.
Yet catastrophe was averted.
