Sentence examples for which was averted from inspiring English sources

Coach Mack Brown tried to find something positive about the near-disaster, which was averted when the Longhorns stopped a 2-point conversion.

But Hill was indomitable and he outflanked the enemy with the threat of a strike, which was averted with three days to spare in January 1961.

As it turned out, she hadn't taken insulin for a full day and was at risk of a diabetic crisis, which was averted when the agency worker intervened.

[C10.] A Drawback to Airline E-Tickets The potential strike by flight attendants at US Airways, which was averted over the weekend, exposed one drawback of the electronic ticket not bought through a travel agent.

He has already survived several assassination attempts, including one two months ago, which was averted when a huge bomb was discovered along the road 100 yards from his house.

Sarin was used in a mass attack on opposition-held areas near Damascus last August, killing between 355 and 1,400 people and prompting the threat of a US strike, which was averted by a deal brokered by Russia for Syria to hand over its stockpiles.

Another reason for the marriage is as an alternative to suicide for the widowed Mandodari, which is averted by Rama.

The Guardian reflected on the week in which global catastrophe was averted.

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.

Winters posits an alternate history in which the Civil War was averted and slavery, never abolished on the national level, persists into our own era, in what are called the Hard Four: Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and the Carolinas, which together hold three million people in bondage.

Arrest was averted by 3-hydroxybenzyloxyamine, which inactivates the pyridoxal co-factor of PAO.