1. Pre-emption was the only method of averting defeat.

2. There seemed to be no way of averting the oncoming crisis.

3. He stepped into the aisle, averting his eyes from the altar.

4. Averting her gaze meant that she was angry.

5. Averting danger was his responsibility.

6. Their actions precipitated the war rather than averting it.

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7. Averting climate change came last.

8. Drexler also needs to keep an eye on averting controversy the Gap's use of third - world labor.

9. Averting a protectionist turn in US policy should be the administration's top priority in trade.

10. The margin of time for averting crisis was melting away.

11. But, paradoxically, averting another Great Depression - like calamity removed political pressure for more fundamental reform.

12. The policy prescriptions offered for averting this threat are both absurd and chilling.

13. The averting of a tragedy is obviously welcome news for BA and everybody aboard.

14. Nervously, they at each other , averting their eyes when they see the other one looking back.

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16. Averting the disruptive extremes of boom and bust can help bring about long - term growth.

17. The world can be changed by man's endeavor, and that this endeavor can lead to something new and better .No man can sever the bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes . He must ever be receptive and sensitive to the new ; and have sufficient courage and skill to novel facts and to deal with them . 

18. Although Hipp voiced optimism, airline and union officials earlier were grim about prospects for averting a walkout.

19. Sometimes Fate tiptoes discreetly at the margins of our lives, averting her eyes and keeping her distance.

20. In it the artist portrays a disheveled thirty-one-year-old Morisot averting her gaze from the viewer.

21. But such organizations have had only limited success in restraining national ambitions and averting conflicts between states.

22. Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. Garrison Keillor 

23. As Jake started to come round the desk towards her, she turned away, averting her eyes.

24. Behaviour was subject to the decrees of custom and this led to a strong emphasis on pragmatism and the averting of any confrontation.

25. She was the only person who did not frighten me, the only thing I went toward without averting my eyes.

26. The unitary regulation has some advantages, such as, the economy of scale, the less cost of supervision, averting supervision arbitrage, etc, which can meet the need of financial mixed operation.

27. No man can sever the bonds that unite him to this society simply averting his eyes.

28. Our coordinated stimulus plans played an indispensable role in averting catastrophe.

29. These results underscore the value of rescue medications in averting psychotic relapse.

30. Pedestrian face-off is an awkward situation in which two pedestrians, who are on a collision course with each other, are repeatedly unsuccessful in averting one another.