Word: avert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the deadline fast approaching, Clinton has started rooting around for a way to avert meting out substantive punishment to China without blatantly ignoring his firmly sated threat. In conjunction with an equally feckless bunch of Congressional co-conspirators, Clinton has seized on the idea of "restricted sanctions" as a sufficiently deceptive device for accomplishing his duplicitous goals. China will not lose MFN status outright; nor will Clinton admit that the calculus of his government places trade relationships over human rights...
When one instance of a lack of communication results in such horrific consequences, all of the parties should take stock of their positions. Hopefully, this one senseless occurrence will focus enough attention on the evolving South African state to avert greater catastrophes in the future...
...advocated violence against anyone it perceived as a threat to Jews. In a 1981 letter to the editor of the New York Times, Goldstein echoed the rabbi's call for the forcible expulsion of Arabs from Israel and the West Bank. "The harsh reality is: if Israel is to avert facing the kinds of problems found in Northern Ireland today, it must act decisively to remove the Arab minority from within its borders," he wrote...
...leader of the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party turned down a last-minute package of concessions from African National Congress president Nelson Mandela intended to avert a threatened boycott of the historic election set for April 26-28. Mandela eased up on A.N.C. demands for strong central authority by offering provincial governments more autonomy. In Natal province, gunmen attacked A.N.C. supporters, killing...
...order to avert these invidious consequences, the Administration would be tempted to further tamper with already mutable accounting procedures. If, on paper, there is no deficit, then the amendment is moot. Nebulous government statistics would become even more bewildering, and accountability would sink amid a morass of bogus technicalities. The amendment would only provoke the government's further abdication of the very budgetary responsibility it was designed to foster...