(n.) To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averted? "To avert his ire."
(v. i.) To turn away.
Example Sentences:
(1) EEG arousal diminished as a function of distance, while arousal for direct gaze was always higher than for averted gaze, whatever the distance.
(2) Customers won a significant victory in the battle with the banks earlier this month when a mass hearing was averted at Hull county court.
(3) Dedicate it to the off-the-cuff remark – the gaffe, even – which averts a war.
(4) Tragedy was averted because there was a little delay as the prayers did not commence in earnest and the bomb strapped to the body of the girl went off and killed her,” he added.
(5) By 2020, the Gavi Alliance estimates that pentavalent vaccines will avert more than 7 million deaths.
(6) The channelling of these monohydroxy fatty acids to cholesteryl esters provides a mechanism which can alter the amount of lipoxygenase products incorporated into cellular phospholipids, thus averting deleterious changes to cell membranes.
(7) The people were free, the dictator was dead, a mooted massacre had been averted – and all this without any obvious boots on the ground.
(8) A high potassium diet could possibly preserve these arteries and avert much renal failure.
(9) This preliminary evaluation suggests that needle laparoscopy may avert bowel perforation in some instances and may permit laparoscopic tubal sterilization to be performed in some women who would otherwise, because of multiple previous operations, be denied laparoscopy.
(10) As things stand, a second Great Depression has been averted, but growth has ranged from the weak in Europe to the unspectacular in the United States.
(11) A radial orientation of the buckle averts this complication.
(12) George Osborne averted a Tory backbench rebellion in the Commons on Monday when the Treasury gave a powerful hint that the government could defer a planned 3p increase in fuel duty.
(13) The younger the infant and the longer the breastfeeding, the greater the estimated benefits in terms of deaths averted.
(14) She writes: Reassurances from the US that short-term measures will be instigated to avert the upcoming debt-ceiling deadline have given European equity markets a jolt upwards, helping to stem some of the risk aversion of the past few days.
(15) According to Defra, the hierarchy is a means to avert "unnecessary impacts on the environment" from development.
(16) Despite spending a record amount of money to sway the mid-term US elections, environmental groups and high-profile donors failed to avert a sweeping Republican victory last week, in which candidates opposing the regulation of greenhouse gases and championing the expansion of tar sands pipelines won big.
(17) Over the next 30-50 years, we may have breakthrough technologies that close the loop by recycling steel or using very different cement types but for now, we have to deal with the technologies we have.” In many ways, the debate over carbon capture and storage is a struggle between two competing visions of the societal transformation needed to avert climate disaster.
(18) The company has lurched from one crisis to the next over the past two years, including industrial action this spring by the chorus, with a strike only narrowly averted .
(19) However, the mass campaign is probably less cost-effective in averting neonatal tetanus deaths, due to its broader targetting.
(20) He told MPs: “We chose a difficult compromise to avert the most extreme plans by the most extreme circles in Europe.” Although the leftist leader urged his Syriza party to endorse the reforms, 36 MPs either voted against or abstained on the measures, three fewer than in a similar vote last week.
Debar
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nature of surrogacy and required legislation is explored in this context, and it is argued that surrogacy should be subject to essentially the same regulation as adoption, thus debarring commercialization but without legislative intervention into the area of private reproductive behaviour.
(2) In anesthetized cats, whose peripheral muscarinic-cholinorecptors are blocked by m-cholinolytics (benzilyl choline) failing to penetrate into the brain, the cholinesterases reactivator diethyxime debars the centrally caused fall of the arterial pressure produced by armine, an inhibitor of cholinesterases readily gaining access into the brain.
(3) He said he wanted to see the rules on government campaigning in the referendum relaxed, arguing that the proposed rules were so restrictive that he might be debarred during the campaign period from even making a prime ministerial statement to the Commons after a meeting of the European Council.
(4) Labour, like the government, has said it would ban exclusivity clauses that would debar employees on zero-hours contracts from working for other companies.
(5) He has backed Wada’s call for Russia to be banned from athletics, saying: “Now for the first time we have the situation that Russia could be debarred from Olympics.
(6) Ucatt is unhappy with the scheme, pointing out that anyone accepting compensation has to drop all other legal claims and is debarred from speaking about what happened to them.
(7) Oligarch deadline Fugitive oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov, the former head of BTA Bank who is accused of embezzling $5bn (£3bn) from the Kazakh lender, is under pressure to turn himself in or risk being debarred from defending himself against fraud claims.
(8) The CofE has refused to countenance any form of official liturgical recognition for civil partnerships; has sought special exemptions from human rights and equalities legislation in order to continue discriminating against openly gay clergy or gay employees; has repeatedly restated its condemnation of all sexual relations outside heterosexual marriage; and has formally debarred even celibate gay clergy from becoming bishops.
(9) In May, Mr Justice Lewison threw out an action at the Royal Courts of Justice brought by Baron Mereworth, who maintains that it his hereditary entitlement to attend the Lords, despite the House of Lords Act 1999 debarring all but 92 of the 650 hereditary peers, including his late father Lord Oranmore and Browne.
(10) With this procedure a successful solution is provided for those cases that were debarred from endourological surgery because the tutor catheter was unable to pass.
(11) Guarded by snipers and sniffer dogs in a hangar that is described as a “sanctuary”, debarred to anyone without security clearance, Air Force One is a symptom of the privileged exclusivity that Trump the populist pretends to despise.
(12) The debate about the cost of journals is made difficult by the fact that there are wide variations across the industry, and of course competition issues debar any collaboration.
(13) But Mandelson adds Labour general secretary Iain McNicol should make his first priority to ensure unions and other third parties are debarred from paying any individual's party membership, which the party says allows the union additional muscle.
(14) Jones's clarification implies that he believes the chief purpose of marriage is procreation, and therefore gay people should be debarred, apparently ignoring the many married hetrosexual couples who do not have children.
(15) Maude said it would be "ridiculous" to debar companies whose employees are related to ministers after criticism over the Cabinet Office paying the legal firm that employs Miriam González Durántez £88,000 this year.
(16) It took two elections (he was again debarred) and three years, but he won.
(17) Some US-owned communications companies believe they are being put under conflicting legal pressures with their British-based firms being handed UK warrants to divulge data secretly that US law debars them from doing.
(18) There have been early scandals, too: one of her colleagues lined up for ministerial promotion was debarred after it emerged he had links with a member of a motorcycle gang.
(19) This effective debarring of women from the legislative process is more than an "embarrassment", it is profoundly undemocratic.
(20) This would therefore suggest that in a proven and recovered case of barotrauma it should not necessarily debar further diving activity.