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Lawmakers trying to avert the strike are calling for labor leaders to be patient.

Retaining older staff has also been a challenge for companies trying to avert a labor crunch.

With ammunition like this, China should be able to avert recession on technical definitions at least.

In fact, he was known to avert his eyes whenever a woman not of his family came into his view.

Just as the rebalancing of China's economy calls for a stronger yuan, so the ability to avert bubbles requires a more flexible one.

He said today that because authorities know how to respond to avert financial collapse, ``there's no question of a replay of the 1930s. ''

But he said a 'dramatic' mobilization of resources is still needed across the world to avert a deeper global recession.

But analysts point out that, since the last serious crisis broke out in 2006, Europe has done very little to avert shortages.

The central bank decided to cut interest rates back to record lows to avert a recession and took big steps to help cash-strapped banks.

He gazed at her dress, then at her hair, where a becoming hat was set jauntily, then into her eyes, which she took all occasion to avert.

Yet it is not too late, in the eyes of many congressmen at least, to introduce elaborate new schemes to avert calamity.

But it is not clear they have done any of the things needed to avert the next one.

Mr Gerstner and Sam Palmisano, who succeeded him in 2002, also took less visible measures to avert another brush with oblivion.

Yet his impact was no less significant: he helped to avert another revolution of the violent Bolshevik kind.

In a train wreck, there comes the moment when it, s no longer possible to avert disaster.

Investors worried the new administration won't be in a position to act fast enough to avert a deep economic downturn.

Brewers might also be able to avert some of theproblems, Dunkel said, by changing the ratio of compounds in their originalrecipes.

Both governments have spoken of their desire to avert war, yet both are constrained by strong public prejudice against the other.

The Fed is supposed to be proactive, with new powers and a level of subjective prodding to avert disasters that will require keen judgments.

Potential victims can attempt to avert their eyes or look away as they would from a normal gaze attack(see page 309 of the Monster Manual).

They might, by attaching rocket motors to the incoming rock, or nudging its orbit with nuclear explosions, even be able to avert disaster.

The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa once said, "To be an artist means never to avert your eyes. "

The leaders met for about an hour at the White House in an effort to avert a government shutdown.

The argument was the same: all the stimulus authorities had administered to avert a financial crisis would push markets ever upwards.

But given the politicians' current uselessness, the only institution with the power to avert danger is the Federal Reserve.

To avert this, the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia cannot be allowed to fail.

And any credit-market improvements might not happen fast enough to avert a savage contraction in bank lending to nonfinancial companies.

Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend.

To avert such economic and religious massacre, they reverted to a transliteration system of these amulets .

The headless body of the old wizard lay before me. Try as I could to avert my gaze and press on with my journey, I failed.

Such measures should be enough to avert a drying-up of bank credit, the main source of finance for euro-area borrowers.

Thank god, they discovered the danger at the last moment, and made shift to avert it.

Some need the added income to make up for pay cuts; others want to avert the risk of losing their income in the event of a layoff.

And market pressures forced the Federal Reserve into a huge $85bn takeover of AIG, our largest insurer, to avert its bankruptcy.

Over the past year things have been looking up for the effort to avert serious climate change.

The race was held to avert misfortune and encourage the rains needed for prosperity ---- and the object of their worship was the dragon.

This newspaper believes that global warming is a serious threat, and that the world needs to take steps to try to avert it.

In some countries, a division of power might be welcome, not least to avert the risk of too much accruing to one man.

It needed managers and businessmen able to avert starvation and total economic collapse.

China takes drastic action over SARS threat: But has it done enough to avert a disaster, or is the SARS crisis set to deepen?

In the wake of the Copenhagen summit, there is a growing acceptance that the effort to avert serious climate change has run out of steam.

They are trying to avert a strike by the actors.

By September, they will demand to know why he did not do something to avert the train wreck.

The episode is a nice parable of anxiety-management; it shows how trying too hard to avert a danger can instead make it happen.

Stronger supervision of money market funds to avert the risk of failure due to rapid withdrawals.

Mr Obama is said to credit Mr Bernanke with a leading role in helping to avert economic catastrophe.

At last, the world had agreed to talk again about the shape of a new international framework to avert dangerous climate change.

Terra Firma bought EMI in 2007, but has since struggled with its investment and undertook a cash-raising exercise to avert the loan default.

He did nothing to avert it, feeling that reducing the money supply was too blunt a tool.

To avert another Omagh they would not leave bombs in town centres but would target the security forces.

Sweeping emergency measures adopted by the Japanese authorities have helped to avert a feared credit crisis, recent developments show.

The Bush Administration moved swiftly to avert any sense of crisis after the market closed.

Meanwhile, the British government is scrambling to avert a similar fiasco.

It is not to be denied that no sacrifice is too great to avert a catastrophe.

In an attempt to avert an asset bubble , the government has pledged to increase land supply.

Participants at the meeting will seek to develop strategies to avert any future shortage.

In October, a bank holiday was declared in New England and New York in a vain effort to avert runs on those institutions.

As the US and Europe tumbled into recession, it was left to the likes of China, India and Brazil to avert a slump.

A delay, as Mr Venizelos already knows, could trigger a repeat of this week's nail-biting effort to avert catastrophe.

Individual confidence must be restored to avert another depression.

In the US, Mr Bernanke is known to be versed in the exceptional measures needed to avert disaster.

Several governments announced emergency stimulus packages intended to avert recession.

Nuclear fusion remains a long shot, but if the world is going to avert climate change, we'll need some luck, too.

Born just before the first world war, and self-exiled during the second, he would accept anything to avert another global conflict.

For Rolls-Royce, the world's second-largest aircraft-engine maker, the safe landing did little to avert worries over the engine's safety.

People began to avert their eyes from him and he became more and more wordless, meanwhile, poorer and poorer.

There we will learn to avert what evils we ourselves create, and then restart the project of humanity, with humility and a new light.

Many have been taking steps to create good will to try to avert the situation worsening.

Double-buffer technology is applied to avert screen flicker and flash during animation.

As a result, other eurozone governments would have to backstop Athens' financial system to avert economic catastrophe.

The mayor promised to do everything in his power to avert a strike by newspaper employees.

For CEE countries with flexible, legacy currencies: whether to lend euros (e. g. , provide swap lines) to avert currency collapse.

Indeed, I would tentatively suggest the creation of state banks that could leap into action to avert threats to the credit system.

True, the rescue of Bear Stearns seemed to avert the implosion of the financial system.

Policies that will help to avert these crises require robust ways of measuring water scarcity to target areas most at risk.

Audi, which faced a similar issue in 1986 took the same track, but it was vindicated too late to avert commercial damage.

The United Nation's World Food Program warned Wednesday "time is running out" to avert a "humanitarian food crisis. "

With food prices high and demand increasing, experts say the way to avert worsening hunger in the world is to put food first.

The Malaysian government thus aimed to avert another incident by diversifying the agriculture sector.

The state is becoming bigger, thanks in large part to the emergency measures taken to avert economic collapse.

Chinese and Southeast Asian officials have agreed on a draft of guidelines to avert tension in the South China Sea.

It was not until 11pm that the two sides announced they had reached a deal to avert a government shutdown.

American officials sped to the region this week, hoping, with European help, to avert a collision at the UN.

The new year will also mark attempts by policymakers to overhaul outdated regulatory systems to avert future crises.

Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on.

To avert the tragedy of a repeat performance, both sides need to keep their hardliners in check.

The only way to avert a future crisis of confidence is to tackle moral hazard.

America and western Europe should certainly be criticised for failing to avert the terrible events in Rwanda and the Balkans .

Use of the technology is set to grow as compliance departments police sprawling organisations to avert potentially costly mistakes.

His new-found enthusiasm for NAFTA and free trade could help to avert a prosperity-destroying drift to protectionism.

rnason and his colleagues argue that to avert a collapse, large marine reserves where fishing is prohibited are required.

In the end this wasn't the case, though the Americans did eventually destroy the pipelines to avert more oil spilling into the Gulf.

Thus, if you want to avert failure, you usually have no alternative--You must comply with school rules.

We will talk with the government and work to avert a capital shortfall, ' he said.

This dialectical idealism provides Mumford a means to avert the mechanization of modern society.

It is increasingly clear that Italy's public debt is unsustainable and needs an orderly restructuring to avert a disorderly default.

We lard our sentences with expressions like "knock on wood" without ever thinking that we do so to avert evil.

Budgetary rules and bank supervision were strengthened, helping to avert the risk of another bubble.

Risheq and other residents have been hoping to avert the demolition by applying for building permits and offering to pay fines.

In financial markets too, it is better to avert panic than to try to pacify it.

Those hoping that the report would outline steps to avert a similar crash were disappointed.

The customer was placated and I was relieved to avert the loss of a customer under my watch.

But the task was to avert a slide into hostile trade competition.

The appeal also includes plans to avert life-threatening situations possible this spring.

They want to avert the return of trade protectionism and China-bashing under the next US administration.

But they endorsed continued weapons inspections and diplomatic efforts to avert war.

Whenever she has been forced to yield ground, Mrs Merkel has justified the concession only as a necessity to avert disaster.

To avert disasters, governments should take urgent and ambitious actions.

The talks to avert a government shutdown have lurched this week between optimism and pessimism.

Eurozone finance ministers are expected to release funds to avert a default by Greece.

N. has warned that North Korea urgently needs outside aid to avert a worse humanitarian disaster.

Another reason for caution, voiced by Mr Trichet, is to avert a "liquidity trap" .

Ukraine's prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, also told EU officials that $5 billion was needed to avert a fresh gas crisis.

True, countries united to bail out banks and craft stimulus plans to avert a global depression.

Another antebellum president, James Buchanan, is also taken to task for failing to avert the south's secession.

To avert a crisis, Beijing allowed state-owned companies to lay off tens of millions of workers.

Despite the tough rhetoric, Republicans signaled they could work with Obama to avert a debt crisis in the coming months.

A second rethink for 2009 concerns what is needed for sustainable, green, low-carbon growth, to avert the tipping-point in global warming.

As for attempts to avert revolution through pressure for reform, this would only alienate those who held the real power.

President Harry S. Truman seized the steel industry to avert a nationwide strike.

Boredom is not merely a nuisance: a psychologically healthy human must find some way to avert boredom.

Globocrats failed to avert the crisis, but they rallied once it struck.

The cuts were welcomed by other euro-zone leaders anxious to avert a Spanish debt crisis.

Pressure is building for central banks to become a lot more active and vocal [this] week if they want to avert a collapse in credit markets.

Capital infusions are needed to avert a sharp contraction in lending.

The only way to avert more serious problems is a new wave of reform.

Europe has acted "pragmatically" to avert doomsday, he says.

Krishnamurti: How can we expect to avert it when the elements and values that cause war continue?

Obama said that swift passage of the plan had been needed in order to avert financial disaster.

Constructing a complete quality controlling system, in order to avert the customer's complaints and improve the customer satisfaction index.

The problem with this argument is that it puts far too much faith in the Fed's ability to avert a further downturn.

Last month the World Food Programme(WFP) called for urgent help to avert a "serious tragedy" .

Recently, Nick was assigned to fix an engine to avert any possible damage.

One motive for creating the euro was precisely to avert such evils in future.

More urgent than confronting the horrors just past is the need to avert a secondary disaster.

But most experts agree that to avert further damage, cooling will need to continue for weeks.

He was too sceptical about the case for using government spending to avert depressions.

After Pakistani terrorists ravaged Mumbai in 2008, he sought to avert an anti-Muslim backlash.

All diplomatic efforts to avert Nuclear war have thus far failed.

We must invest in research now to deliver the treatments needed to avert the coming dementia crisis.

He announced two last-ditch initiatives to avert doom.

What the IMF can do is provide the capacity and credibility to avert crises and resolve them when they do occur.

Thus we should take even crippling action to avert trivial hardships that may befall our long, long line of descendants.

But will it be sufficient to avert defeat in Afghanistan?

Japan pumps nitrogen into reactor to avert blast.

I have outlined a framework for how both parties can work together to avert the fiscal cliff without raising tax rates.

The thief intended to avert the stolen property.

Experts warn that we must find alternative forms of energy in order to avert calamities posed by global climate change.

Reason is in order to avert bullying, not be blackmail and threats.

To avert financial disaster for Greece, the bloc must forge a compromise by a June 23-24 EU summit.

They discovered the danger in time, and made shift to avert it.

Anciently , in dietetics field, the primary research tasks are all about how to avert the lack of alimentation.

The government has failed to avert a national strike.

If we wish to avert failure in speculation we must deal with causes.

It was Scott's turn to avert his gaze.

The essence of Shubik's problem is that it always seems worthwhile to offer a small amount to avert a larger loss.

Poverty is very bad for children, so if the mother's work helps to avert it they will benefit.

Contrary, sweep around with eyes be felt uneasy, want to avert from a kind of performance for fighting.

It must notify the union 50 days in advance of the layoffs and engage in talks on how to avert them.

Following the extraordinary steps taken last year to avert economic disaster, it is in effect returning to old-fashioned Ordnungspolitik.

Among these, it assessed 11 actions to avert weather disasters such as planting mangroves to prevent flooding and flood-proofing houses.

Can anything be done to avert disaster?

Reasonable people can and do disagree about exactly what we should do to avert another banking crisis.

In order to avert spring diseases, medicines are given to every family in the village.

He has some advice on how to avert the resource curse.

Is it the best way to avert the harm to students by the ban of cell phones?

I'm really scared. We need to reduce C02 emissions in ten to fifteen years by 80 percent in order to avert catastrophic effects.

First, to avert to touch the people who has a temperature and go to the public places.

Forests do abate climate change China is doing well in afforestation which is thebest way to avert climate change to some extent.

It is this principle that will help foster the self-discipline needed to avert future crises.

If male circumcision were widely adopted, officials predicted that could help to avert tens of thousands of HIV infections in coming years;

Group of Governmental Experts on International Cooperation to Avert New Flows of Refugees;

Credit Notarization: the Efficient Means to Avert Legal Risks for Loans

Japan proposes to avert confrontation over isles

U. S. House passes spending bill to avert government shutdown

G8 Agriculture Ministers Try to Avert World Food Crisis

Action Urged To Avert Freshwater Crisis

all dreaded it , all sought to avert it