1.   More talks were proposed in an attempt to avert the crisis.

2.   Nigel Clough did more than anyone to avert a crisis for his old man.

3.   The government will be relieved that a crisis has been averted.

4.   Anyway, that crisis was averted, and Connecticut was officially in the Final Four.

5.   Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso said he persuaded his leader in the lower congressional house not to resign, averting a crisis in his governing coalition.

6.   A crisis was averted only when electoral authorities announced that Fujimori had fallen just short of an outright first-round victory.

7.   But at the Democratic convention, the fashion crisis was averted.

8.   But by the time they call the ambulance, many have gone without the preventive care that might have averted the crisis.

9.   But his announcement was unusually candid in its expression of remorse in not having done enough to avert the crisis.

10.   But Laura S. Unger, a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said she is confident the crisis will be averted.