1.   The owners could have done something to avert the tragedy.

2.   A humanitarian tragedy was averted and the political landscape was improved.

3.   But did the victorious Allies learn from the experience how to avert future tragedies?

4.   But he said he found in volunteer work a way to help others, to heal himself and, maybe, to help avert a tragedy for someone else.

5.   Could the Yates tragedy have been averted?

6.   Had the general public been as wary, perhaps the bag would have been detected sooner, averting the tragedy altogether.

7.   How many other tragedies might be averted if our children learned to accept each other, rather than mock those at the bottom of the social pecking order?

8.   Human tragedy was averted only when Dulin managed to free the trapped pilot and push him from the blazing plane, Agather said.

9.   If we are to avert future tragedies, we will have to include these and other ways of supporting parents in a new definition of community.

10.   It was not enough to avert tragedy.