Sentence examples for was to avert a from inspiring English sources

"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.

Of course when parliament was asked to bomb Syria as part of Operation Hornets Nest it was to avert a humanitarian crisis.

Following the ratification and final approval by the Football Association in February 1992, the next step for the Premier League founders was to avert a players' strike.

Without the analytical aid of a computer system, Mr. Bryant said, the bureau's counterterrorism program would be hobbled, particularly if the goal was to avert a crime.

Even though President Thieu used the defeat of South Vietnamese forces as a justification for the arrest of those generals, his real intention behind the arrests was to avert an imaginary military coup against him.

An overriding imperative in the United States, he says, should be to avert a drastic economic slowdown.

But this is more a plea for wiser policymakers than a case against reducing rates.Another reason for caution, voiced by Mr Trichet, is to avert a "liquidity trap".

If it is to avert a decline, the country must follow the same path as the rest of the global industry.

Alfred starts to tell Frank that he is not Gabriel when Rosalinde takes him aside and begs him to say that he is, to avert a scandal ("Mein Herr, was dächten Sie von mir").