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Example sentences for: avert

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At best, they may be understood as diplomatic circumlocutions, designed to ease Russia's political dilemma in the Balkans and thus avert further frictions with Moscow," it said.
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.
Similarly, you're advised to avert your glance from the making of sausages, and laws, and presumably laws about the manufacture of sausages to be fried up in some restaurant that you won't be visiting.
The New York Times leads with President Clinton's push for a new International Monetary Fund strategy to avert further global economic turmoil.
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.