Word: averting
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...goal of Your Disease Risk is to show people that they can change their behaviors to avert prevalent, life-altering conditions, said HCCP Director Graham A. Colditz in a press release...
...Hamilton, the first Treasury Secretary, the supreme threat to liberty arose from insufficient government power. To avert that, he advocated a vigorous central government marked by a strong President, an independent judiciary and a liberal reading of the Constitution. As the first Secretary of State, Jefferson believed that liberty was jeopardized by concentrated federal power, which he tried to restrict through a narrow construction of the Constitution. He favored states' rights, a central role for Congress and a comparatively weak judiciary...
...midst of war and starvation in the late 1960s, the nations adopted Borlaug’s dwarf wheat and were able to avert both...
Dartboard couldn’t avert his eyes as a full foot of flesh (among the three of them) stared him square in the face. Their low-rise jeans, pushed even lower by their vain attempts to fit into clothes evidently sized for their pop idols, were hiked up just enough to show some modesty while standing up. But the mechanics of sitting had changed them into exhibitionists. Dartboard’s eyes were burning...
...Sonia Gandhi's entry into politics five years ago was widely viewed as an attempt to avert the total collapse of the Congress Party's fortunes, and prepare the way for one of her children to assume their father's mantle. The Prime Minister's office has suddenly become available, unexpectedly early, long before 33-year-old Rahul, just elected to parliament for the first time, is ready. She may not have anticpated it, but Sonia may now be forced to take the top job herself. Given the difficulty of altering the economic circumstances that ended Vajpayee's tenure...