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Example sentences for: averting

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Several terrorist operatives were detained by foreign governments, possibly disrupting operations in the Gulf and Italy and perhaps averting attacks against two or three U.S. embassies.
7 billion per year in willingness-to-pay values for averting premature fatalities.
One way of averting this problem would be for CNBC or CNNfn to feature discussions among advocates of different approaches to understanding the market.
The Russians and American on board frantically hacked at wires and sealed off the leak, just averting death.
Reconciling Averting Behavior and Contingent Valuation Benefit Estimates of Reducing Symptoms of Ozone Exposure (draft), as cited in Neumann, J.E., Dickie, M.T.