averting

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• If, however, 50 high-income countries around the globe hogged the first 2 billion doses, only 33 percent of deaths would be averted.

• This means that if you donate $100, you can avert around 857 metric tons of CO2.

• That degree of preparation is meant to speed the delivery of vaccines and avert more deaths.

• The two have now stepped back from the brink, averting a showdown, but they are likely preparing for another round.

• A new study argues that nations can help avert the biodiversity and climate crises by preserving the roughly 50 percent of land that remains relatively undeveloped.

• There is cautious optimism that this prompt action may have helped avert a broader outbreak.

• President Obama said Libya had to be attacked to avert a genocide in Benghazi.

• Sometimes, even before shots are fired, Interrupters can predict and avert crisis, according to Slutkin.

• And they believe in tougher sanctions precisely because they want to avert war.

• But over the next two months, watch them avoid making tough debt choices to avert another shutdown, says Peter Beinart.

• He and he alone, they imagined, could avert that dismemberment of which they could not bear to think.

• Every rail and post was utilized for hitching, and Town-marshal Pease, his star displayed, patrolled the town to avert disorder.

• Startled and wondering, David dared not long avert his eyes from the opposite bank.

• Besides, he wanted them to warn the Apaches out of the neighborhood and thus avert from his head the vengeance of Manga Colorada.