Word: averted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commission delayed the suspension of the club's alcohol and entertainment licenses for a probationary period of three months, during which the club may avert the penalty if the period passes without incident...
Signing the bill seems to have given the President a great boost toward re-election--likely helping avert a Gingrich-Dole government that would be a nightmare for those of us who, like Bane, care about serious and effective public policy reform...
...having a germ-free environment and all his windows permanently sealed. The schoolchildren are more inclined to count cracks in the blacktop (for them, "Step on a crack, break your mother's back" is frighteningly literal) or meticulously arrange their crayons in neat rows, again and again, to avert some imagined catastrophe...
After first wishing to avert his eyes from the population of the disabled, of which he was now a part, he gradually came to accept what was before him. He got rid of his security guards. "I started wheeling into other people's rooms and talking with them. We realized we were no different from one another. Some very nice friendships developed." From time to time, he goes back to Kessler to visit with the people he met there...
...heads were the first to roll. Now an officer appointed to comb the results of the investigation will determine if other people in the chain of command should also be held accountable." President Clinton called the report brutally honest: "Some steps have already been taken to avert the possibility that any of these errors can be made again, and I am convinced, absolutely convinced, that others will be taken." -->