(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.
Evitable
Definition:
(a.) Avoidable.
Example Sentences:
(1) When, in the course of studying this behavior, moths are removed by stages from the natural circumstances of this interaction their evasion responses become much less invariant; that is, more evitable.
(2) Acoustic interneuronal systems within the thoracic ganglia and the brain have been examined for lapses in responsiveness and for other indications of transsynaptic instability that might correlate with the demonstrated behavioral evitability.
(3) The afferent nerve response of the noctuid auditory organ is highly stable; therefore, the source or sources of this evitability must lie down-stream in the moth central nervous system.
(4) The authors outline the procedure used for analysis of the necessary data in order to differentiate inevitable and evitable risks which damage the foetus and neonate and they analyzed the causes of different data from obstetric practice focused on prevention of hypoxia, immaturity, lethal congenital defects and factors from differentiated neonatalogical care.
(5) The possible survival value of some evitability in this behavior under natural circumstances is discussed.
(6) A final word about Anna and Bates, who are plunked back into the same kind of silence and mutual misunderstanding that defined their early relationship and which seems to be driving them inevitably toward a wholly evitable bad end.