Sentence examples for we cannot avert from inspiring English sources

And we cannot avert our eyes as a city any longer".

On the one hand he warns against presentism, the mistake of judging people of the past by the standards of the present; on the other hand he says that "we cannot avert our eyes from the magnitude of the evil".

"As the international community comes together to reach political solutions, we cannot avert our gaze from the Syrian people, especially children, who need help now," Clegg said at the UN general assembly in New York.

Speaking from New York, Mr Clegg said: "We cannot avert our gaze from the Syrian people, especially children".

We cannot avert natural disasters but we can avert wars and genocides.

This is only the latest ridiculous moment in the Devils' season, which has become the kind of wreck from which you cannot avert your eyes, writes Wes Goldstein on CBSSports.com.com

Yet they cannot avert their gaze from Floyd now.

And they cannot avert their eyes; they have to let the images in, no matter how searing or disturbing.

As a white hood is lowered over the head, the noose tightened around the neck and a lever pulled to drop the body from the scaffold, you cannot avert your eyes.

Pre-game communication, conventions, and other instructional devices cannot avert tragedies in Rousseau's forest and Hume's meadow because risky coordination problems are not problems of knowledge, common or otherwise.

But the myth, as she says, is "ineluctable", and this mournful outpouring cannot avert the end.