1. With just days left to avert a government shutdown, Washington is yet again in paralysis.

2. The goal would be to avert another round of automatic cuts that many in both parties want to avoid.

3. Such a pledge would avert the need to create a blind trust, he said.

4. At any rate, the cyberattacks have not slowed the North Korean program sufficiently enough to avert the current crisis.

5. The rationale is to avert total economic collapse, which would create a failed state in a strategically critical region.

6. But they took effect in 2013 after lawmakers failed to reach a compromise to avert them.

7. Their inclusion here suggested that Athens was willing to yield on those points to expedite an agreement and avert financial catastrophe.