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Example sentences for: avert

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We thought we had some insights that would help to avert such failures in the future.
Over the long-term, meaningful Social Security and Medicare reform will be necessary to avert massive government dissaving, reduce the economic burden of government spending for an aging population, and restore budgetary flexibility to address other national priorities.
2) It must bail out Russia soon enough to avert collapse but not before Russia delivers the politically painful tax, spending, and legal reforms necessary for its long-term health.
Wanting neither to alienate his party-mates nor lose his meal ticket in Johnson, Ross tried to avert a vote altogether.
He thinks the United States, given the way the war was being fought, should have pulled out in 1968, if only to avert the subsequent casualties that, he argues, wound up weakening America's determination to combat Soviet and Chinese communism.