Sentences with 'avert'
Example sentences and phrases with the word avert and other words derived from it.
• « Ramses II was, however, the last of the great pharaohs, and all those who followed him worked to avert disaster rather than to expand Egyptian power. »
• « This event, in which a popular uprising in Paris spontaneously used force to avert the threat of royalist repression, remains the bank holidays of the French Republic to this day, commemorated as Bastille Day. »
• « The British and French governments hastily convened a conference in Munich to avert war, and there, instead of defending Czech sovereignty (which the Czechs claimed), the French and British agreed that Germany should annex the Sudetenland to "protect" its German population. »