Instead, it was trying to avert a financial stampede. From Wordnik.com. [The Market’s Echo Chamber] Reference
We're going to do everything we can to avert a famine. From Wordnik.com. ['People Should Not Be Dying Of Hunger In The 21St Century'] Reference
My party has called upon them to avert military action. From Wordnik.com. [One View Of The Taliban] Reference
Seeking to avert a trade war, China has agreed to concessions. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Squeeze] Reference
Ashamed children avert their eyes and try to shrink out of sight. From Wordnik.com. [Raising A Moral Child] Reference
This is what countries in the international system want to avert. From Wordnik.com. [‘Absence of Courage’] Reference
Can the country avert the "irredeemable losses" its leaders foresee?. From Wordnik.com. [From Freedom To Fear: When Aids Hits China] Reference
By lowering interest rates, the Fed helped avert a crisis of confidence. From Wordnik.com. [Greenspan's Real Legacy] Reference
Much of that, however, was used to avert cuts rather than to create jobs. From Wordnik.com. [The Recession Is Over] Reference
In the meantime the agency will be scrambling to avert the next nightmare. From Wordnik.com. [A Street Fight] Reference
But aid officials fear it won't be enough to avert many thousands more deaths. From Wordnik.com. [One Crisis Too Many?] Reference
Sachs poses several technical and economic strategies that may help avert disaster. From Wordnik.com. [Rivers Running Dry] Reference
An alliance of conservative parties is working overtime to avert a landslide defeat. From Wordnik.com. [HONG KONG: A MESSAGE FOR BEIJING] Reference
That is something that Abdullah will no doubt spend a lot of his time trying to avert. From Wordnik.com. [Halting Hamas] Reference
Some in the pro-democracy camp suspect a plot to avert elections altogether until 2012. From Wordnik.com. [Taiwan: The Last Tycoon?] Reference
But the big payoff, of course, would be in helping predict or avert fertility problems. From Wordnik.com. [Biological Alarm Clock] Reference
If it can avert an invasion, the Carter delegation will ease America's entry into Haiti. From Wordnik.com. [Here We Go Again] Reference
Two years ago the former dictator was forced to resign to avert political and economic chaos. From Wordnik.com. [Indonesia V. Suharto] Reference
And the United States will have to encourage constructive peace if it wants to avert endless war. From Wordnik.com. [Blood And Betrayal] Reference
Just as Tokyo was helpless to stop the 1988 bloodshed, so might Beijing fail to avert a disaster. From Wordnik.com. [The Problem With Burma] Reference
They hope the fledgling UDM will avert an ANC victory and let Inkatha keep on ruling the province. From Wordnik.com. [No End Of Hate] Reference
By chronicling the many pitfalls of counterterrorism, the authors hope to help avert future attacks. From Wordnik.com. [How 9-11 Happened] Reference
The possible suspects are being monitored by the FBI. A last-minute deal may yet avert military action. From Wordnik.com. [Did Saddam Blink?] Reference
That, at least, was what Los Alamos officials themselves were saying last week -- and rushing to avert. From Wordnik.com. [The Plagues Of Los Alamos] Reference
Whatever environmentalists or Green-thinking pols may say, it's a few decades too late to avert disaster. From Wordnik.com. [Here's Dr. Doom] Reference
But state and federal officials rushed to avert a replay of the Hurricane Andrew debacle in south Florida. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction In Paradise] Reference
He hoped by this humiliation to avert war, but he was fated to bring his countrymen war on top of humiliation. From Wordnik.com. [A War Worth Fighting] Reference
Still, as the bombs began falling it must have been tempting for the president-elect to simply avert his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [How We Got to This Point] Reference
So the truth is the stimulus money will help and may avert some future layoffs, but not all 57 cited by the mayor. From Wordnik.com. [Fact-Checking Obama's Speech] Reference
But he doesn't think it will be a disaster, which means we shouldn't do anything too difficult or expensive to avert it. From Wordnik.com. [Book Review: The Lomborg Deception] Reference
Last week Gingrich and Dole agreed to avert a third government shutdown, exacting no real concessions from the Democrats. From Wordnik.com. [So If Hardball Doesn't Work, What's Our Plan B?] Reference
As Washington plots its course for war against Iraq, some governments are still hoping that mediation can avert conflict. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting Against War] Reference
You watch her with a mixture of awe and concern, almost wanting to avert your eyes from a performance so nakedly emotional. From Wordnik.com. [Light & 'Dark'] Reference
And how do we prevent negotiation and implementation from becoming a means to legitimize proliferation rather than avert it?. From Wordnik.com. [AMERICA'S ASSIGNMENT] Reference
Increased food aid and financial support from abroad also could prevent misuse of nuclear weapons by helping to avert chaos. From Wordnik.com. [Nukes On The Loose] Reference
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