But catastrophe was avoided.

The nightmare of a nuclear Armageddon has been averted.

France did the job rather well, leaving, for example, the arrest of Gbagbo to Quattara s forces. Civil war was averted.

Civil war was averted.

A calamity was avoided by sheer luck.

Not even schoolchildren had been able to escape from the Israeli terror.

Virtually no country has escaped.

The most recent threat of a US debt default has been avoided, but only temporarily.

Although the worst was avoided, much pain remains.

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Not one sector of the Cuban economy has escaped the hardship caused by the embargo.

The operation did not take place, thus averting a further escalation of the situation.

In particular, a bias towards Western Europe could not be avoided.

Nonetheless, we were not able to avoid conflicts and contradictions.

Confrontation was however averted following diplomatic efforts and the intervention of traditional leaders.

However, he was well aware that this would not be acceptable to the European powers.

Epidemics have been avoided by a coordinated preparedness and efficient intervention of the humanitarian community.

The crew was able to land the blazing aircraft, but a tragedy could not be avoided, and 46 passengers died.

Nevertheless, most regions have generally avoided being drawn into the present confrontation.

It's even happened to the best selling poet in America Rumi.

Wasteful duplication and overlapping of activities would be avoided.

Zaire succeeded in averting this great tragedy owing in large part to the timely assistance provided by the international community.

What about countries that have managed to avoid such bad debt situations?

Though the crisis may be over in the sense that outright collapse has been avoided, the economy remains vulnerable.

Spain, too, escaped violent dissolution when Generalissimo Francisco Franco s fascist dictatorship collapsed at his death.

Aviation experts have speculated that the pilot managed to avoid a thick rainstorm cloud and land the plane on water.

However, the City was successfully defended by the young King Araphor and disaster was averted.

Everyone knows that crises that are avoided do not make headlines.

The application of innovative working methods had made it possible to avoid repetitive statements and the duplication of resolutions and decisions.

Work is also well advanced on a number of pilot institutions including the setting up of a farmers' organisation, a pilot agriculture training and advisory service and an agricultural machinery ring.

36. In the days following these events, ONUSAL obtained information that three other persons had been seized along with the six victims, and for different reasons they had been able to save themselves from execution.

It is to Spence s credit that the report manages to avoid both market fundamentalism and institutional fundamentalism.

If people were merely to stop and think of those children, many of the worst events in the world could be avoided.

The United Nations has managed to avoid most of the obstacles that caused the failure of its immediate predecessor, the League of Nations.

The cost reduction impact element measures the costs avoided or minimized through implementation of a management improvement measure.

And they turn away while they are exulting.

His Administration deserves much credit, both for policies followed and mistakes avoided.

Because of favourable external conditions, both Australia and New Zealand have again avoided an anticipated moderation in growth.

But Winata himself eluded police investigation, merely by claiming publicly that his followers acted without his prior knowledge and consent.

Interethnic violence which many feared has largely been avoided, and the mass exodus of Serbs that some also predicted has not occurred.

To their credit, many of the project s opponents have avoided the crass bigotry that is becoming a standard trait of right wing discourse in the United States.

Muhammed Lamin Juwara, who witnessed the shootings but managed to escape, named his fellow students who died

Eventually, Kaczynski was able to avoid the death penalty by pleading guilty to all the government's charges, on January 22, 1998.

As the Unity pulled closer, he opened fire, but the Machias crew managed to avoid that fire and pull alongside the Margaretta .

Had these events not been met by a conscientious response on the part of UNFICYP and restraint by the Turkish Forces, there could have been serious consequences.