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Example sentences for: averting

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7 billion per year in willingness-to-pay values for averting premature fatalities.
The justification for the cuts rests upon a misapprehension of the lessons of the 1980s, a foolishly optimistic view of the certainty of economic forecasts, a confusion of public and private goods, and an almost willful averting of the eyes from the realities of the U.S. economy.
Reconciling Averting Behavior and Contingent Valuation Benefit Estimates of Reducing Symptoms of Ozone Exposure (draft), as cited in Neumann, J.E., Dickie, M.T.
In other words, averting a HI shortfall for 75 years now would require an increase in payroll taxes by 1.97 percent (a 68-percent increase over the 2001 rate paid by employers and workers47), a cut in HI spending by 37 percent, or some combination of the two.
He negotiated a budget deal with Shas, an ultra-Orthodox party that controls a quarter of the coalition's parliamentary seats, thereby averting Shas' threatened withdrawal from the government.