Sentence examples for working to avert from inspiring English sources

At seven months pregnant, I learned I was carrying twins, and my doctor ordered me to stop working to avert an early delivery.

Among those working to avert so absurd an outcome are London Councils, the body which represents the capital's 33 local authorities.

Credit Suisse, under a widening investigation into foreign banks with offshore private banking services, is working to avert a potential standoff with federal authorities like the one faced by the rival Swiss bank UBS.

Even as Secretary of State John Kerry worked to build support for a strike, his Iranian counterpart, Mr. Zarif, known as a moderate who hopes for dialogue, seemed to be working to avert one, declaring in an interview on Sunday that Iran warned the United States last year about chemical weapons getting into the hands of Syrian rebels.

With the Japanese authorities working to avert a catastrophic meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and one other Japanese plant showing problems, the safety of America's nuclear plants — and the wisdom of any expansion — is beginning to come under a new round of scrutiny.

It is not those working to avert dangerous climate change who are the faith-based ideologues, but those who deny the overwhelming scientific evidence on global warming, who use smears and dishonest rhetoric in their desperate battle to defend fossil fuels and stymie the progress that this country is finally making towards cleaning up its energy supply.

Any chance of a diplomatic breakthrough was shattered as diplomats worked to avert a military confrontation.

But there are other tools there, he says, that could work to avert that.

The House has taken no action, and it is unclear if the legislation will be taken up as lawmakers work to avert a series of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts scheduled to take place Jan . 1

Serving in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Mr. Talbot worked to avert international conflicts, among them the tensions between India and Pakistan before their 1965 war over control of the Kashmir region, a struggle that continues to this day.

The turbulence unnerved already jittery markets, and it prompted President Giorgio Napolitano, who holds the authority to dissolve Parliament and call for new elections, to reassure Italians on Thursday evening that he would work to avert a crisis.