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Example sentences for: averting

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The Russians and American on board frantically hacked at wires and sealed off the leak, just averting death.
7 billion per year in willingness-to-pay values for averting premature fatalities.
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.
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.
He listed six other steps for averting disaster: 1) equipping international institutions with the research facilities to stop lying and to tell the truth about the real state of the world economy; 2) taking the worst-affected countries into international trusteeship before financing them; 3) multiplying the fire breaks by sealing off the world's most volatile foreign-exchange markets; 4) taxing international speculation to increase the financial resources of international organizations; 5) taking counter-panic measures by, for example, getting governments around the world to make public international investments to show the global community's confidence in its own long-term future; 6) encouraging in the markets a taste for being different, for "finding it fashionable to be unfashionable," for going against the grain.