Sentence examples for you could avert from inspiring English sources

IF YOU could avert your eyes from kidnappings in the Delta, venal barons in the provinces, sectarian strife and oil-fired corruption, it was possible to feel optimistic about Nigeria.

Still, no one could avert it.

A European-level bank deposit-guarantee scheme could avert bank runs.

The evidence shows that $25 billion a year from the donors could avert around 8m deaths each year.

I used to think that political leaders could avert fiscal suicide.

Two possibilities could avert this bloodbath, but both are long shots.

If it's a mess, then some simple house-keeping could avert disaster.

Another alarm that could avert a disaster is a water-leak detector.

Investors embraced signs of a political compromise that could avert a default on government debt, sending stocks surging on Thursday.

The players could avert that possibility through legal channels, by dissolving their union and filing an antitrust lawsuit.

Construct enough of them and, in theory at least, CO2 emissions could continue unabated and still we could avert calamity.