averting her gaze meant that she was angry.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

averting danger was his responsibility.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

If it's a dystopia sort of story, part of its value might be in averting a possible negative future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Git along, git along, git along, little tofu] Reference

To be sure, Brazil may claim that its shuttle diplomacy was instrumental in averting a major Middle Eastern war between the U.S. and Iran.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nikolas Kozloff: Part IV: What Is the Brazilian Brand?] Reference

We need to develop means of handling such health crisis as soon as possible as this would help in averting a lot of unnecessary deaths in the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MYSTERY OF THEIR DEATH] Reference

As chargé d'affaires he was involved in averting threatened war between France and England during the conflict between King Chulalongkorn of Siam and the French fleet3.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Peace Prize 1909 - Presentation Speech] Reference

Perhaps we can use our existing technologies of cooperation to accelerate finding answers to these questions, and to keep track of our progress in averting global disaster?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Using Technologies of Cooperation, Knowledge Commons, and Foresight to Avert Pandemic] Reference

Originally, the bill used the word "averting," which suggested a woman would have to look away from an ultrasound monitor to avoid seeing a fetus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beatrice Daily Sun News Articles] Reference

As a multi-cultural and multi-religious society, it faces many challenges such as averting explosive divisions along racial, religious, ethnical and regional lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jakarta Post Breaking News] Reference

There must be some way of averting total disaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Damned If You Don't] Reference

The NFL and NFLPA negotiated the deal, averting arbitration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vincent Jackson settlement reached; is a trade next?] Reference

The very warning might be the means of averting such a fate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

The German Chancellor rejected this means of averting the war.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference

Our participation was in the interest of averting a European war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference

"Nothing to fear, my dear, I am sure," he replied, averting his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Omega, the Man] Reference

  No sooner had she thought it than she wished it away, averting her eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caitlin in the Y2K Museum] Reference

"You couldn't come back with them," he said painfully, averting his eyes from hers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Days The Story of a War Marriage] Reference

Night and the reticent gray city, averting their eyes, let her slip through unregarded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coast of Chance] Reference

Better to sound alarms early-and accept congratulations later for averting big trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bailout That Never Took Place] Reference

"Yes," she said, not averting her eyes, although her face was covered with a quick blush.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

We look at him one more time and then averting our eyes we walk past him, not once looking back.    From Wordnik.com.  [That's It] Reference

Seamen in the era of tall ships often poured oils into the water in the hope of averting hurricanes.    From Wordnik.com.  [STUDY: EYE ON THE STORM] Reference

Slightly averting her head, she went on where the children left off, but still there was the fixed look.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Our Guy' or, The elder brother] Reference

U.S. officials speak of escaping with modest losses -- a small price for averting industrial catastrophe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pension time bomb: The shadow hanging over GM's turnaround] Reference

Federal agencies on flood-proofing and other devices for averting flood damage at and around the capital city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior] Reference

(Full disclosure: My book, "In Fed We Trust," credits the Fed with a major role in averting another Depression.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Hindsight Offers Lessons on Crisis] Reference

Needless to say, she had to keep averting her eyes from me so that she could actually watch her son play the game.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delia Lloyd: 5 Signs You're Not a Sports Mom] Reference

We find ourselves averting our eyes from grisly auto accidents and gradually losing our interest in slasher movies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Lost, Grim Reaper] Reference

Municipal-bond analysts said Sunday that the actions showed state officials understood the importance averting default.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harrisburg to Make Bond Payment With State Help] Reference

Neither bill costs much to implement, and will save taxpayers billions, literally billions, by averting costly infections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Kennedy Lawford: A Personal Plea for Better HIV & Hepatitis Prevention Policy] Reference

The other factor in averting the abyss will be whether this year the United States and then the world economy falls into recession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goodbye to the Bulls?] Reference

I have me getting dressed to go to work, taking off my towel in front of him, slipping on a pair of underwear and him averting his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underwear Thing] Reference

The slide also accused the CIA of not being aggressive enough and of averting its eyes to "grim realities" about international terrorism.    From Wordnik.com.  [SADDAM'S LINKS TO 9/11?] Reference

Similarly, Iran and the Saudis have a common interest in averting a full-blown military confrontation between the Shiites and the Sunnis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leon T. Hadar: What Happens if U.S. Troops Leave Afghanistan? Not the End of the World as We Know it] Reference

In the name of averting a catastrophic population explosion, Chinese women were forced to undergo late-term abortions and tubal ligations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Littlest Outlaws] Reference