avert

• But the member of a press corps which usually showed more concern for the Bush administration's tactics than the terrorist threat they were meant to avert, empathized with burden of the "pretty sobering stuff" the new President now learns about —  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
• The attack on the little shop that they had helped to avert was only one of many, although there was no real rioting in London. —  Facing the German foe, by Colonel James Fiske
• It was easy to understand that, if a vessel were fired upon under such circumstances, it would be accepted as the beginning of hostilities--a result which both he and I desired to avert, as the greatest calamity that could be foreseen or imagined. —  The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
• Mrs. Luna exclaimed; and in spite of the sense, detestable to him, that everything he wished most to avert was fast closing over the girl, Ransom broke into cynical laughter Ah, but do protest, madam; let us at least have that fragment!" —  The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)
• She threw her eyes upon the ground in silence, as if wishing to measure out his grave, and one where she might sleep in peace beside him They were roused from the passive depression of poverty by the awakening call of imminent danger to the person of him who, in all their former trials, had acted as their guardian angel to avert or mitigate calamity. —  The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel

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