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There is cautious optimism that this prompt action may have helped avert a broader outbreak.

President Obama said Libya had to be attacked to avert a genocide in Benghazi.

Sometimes, even before shots are fired, Interrupters can predict and avert crisis, according to Slutkin.

And they believe in tougher sanctions precisely because they want to avert war.

But over the next two months, watch them avoid making tough debt choices to avert another shutdown, says Peter Beinart.

He and he alone, they imagined, could avert that dismemberment of which they could not bear to think.

Every rail and post was utilized for hitching, and Town-marshal Pease, his star displayed, patrolled the town to avert disorder.

Startled and wondering, David dared not long avert his eyes from the opposite bank.

Besides, he wanted them to warn the Apaches out of the neighborhood and thus avert from his head the vengeance of Manga Colorada.

I fear that any legal proceedings you may resort to will hardly avert the publicity you seem to fear.