Sentence examples for was to avert from inspiring English sources
The country's response, though, was to avert its eyes.
In 2009, his mission was to avert the worst of the financial crisis.
Half of the money was to avert cuts in Medicaid programs.
"Pasok's strategy," said Theodore Pangalos, a senior party member and former foreign minister, "was to avert a crushing defeat nationwide.
The principal goal of the postwar economic settlement was to avert a recurrence of the protectionism associated with economic depression and the rise of, well, Hitler.
Yet if one of Mr Sanader's hopes from better relations was to avert a bad year for Croatian tourism, he may not have done enough.
The idea is to avert similar disputes in future.
From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them.
If America is to avert disaster it must give Palestinians hope in a peace worth having.
An overriding imperative in the United States, he says, should be to avert a drastic economic slowdown.
The Obama administration's first interest in the region is to avert war between Iran and Israel.
