Newcastle hoped he had managed to avert war in Europe, but in 1756 Frederick invaded Saxony and Bohemia triggering the major European war Newcastle had feared and failed to prevent.

Zeus, taking pity upon the two, decided to avert the tragedy and put them both up in the heavens, and their constellations are now referred to as Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, the big and little bears.

The King decided that he should not withhold the Assent without " convincing evidence that it would avert a national disaster, or at least have a tranquillizing effect on the distracting conditions of the time ".

To avert this injustice, the jury decided to assert what it believed to be their " ancient right " to judge the whole case and not just the facts, rendering the verdict of " not guilty " which remains in Scotland to this day.

To avert a disaster, it was decided that the Oakleigh line should have its own tracks into Melbourne, and soon after a second bridge spanning the Yarra River was built to facilitate this.

To avert this injustice, the jury decided to assert what it believed to be their " ancient right " to judge the whole case and not just the facts, and brought in the verdict of " not guilty ".

In order to carry out his plans more successfully, and possibly to avert the suspicion of the Turkish authorities, he decided to become a Bulgarian school teacher.

* Equivalent variation, a measure of how much more money a consumer would pay before a price increase to avert the price increase

They point to such numbers as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) assumption that a developed nation can pay fifteen times more than a developing nation to avert a death due to climate change, as evidence of systematic neglect of the value of statistical life in the poorer South, as opposed to the more developed North.

Ultimately, we are left with the question, how much are we prepared to pay in order to avert imminent death as individuals.

When, owing to cases of disloyalty towards the Porte by the Princes, the choice became limited to a few families, it became frequent that rulers would be shifted from one principality to the other: the Prince of Wallachia, the richer of the two Principalities, would pay certain sums in order to avert his transfer to Iaşi, while the Prince of Moldavia would bribe supporters in Constantinople in exchange for his appointment to Wallachia.

Equivalent variation ( EV ) is a measure of how much more money a consumer would pay before a price increase to avert the price increase.

These films typically feature large casts of well-known actors and multiple plotlines, focusing on the characters ' attempts to avert, escape or cope with the disaster and its aftermath.

On August 16, France and Britain offered Italy large concessions in Ethiopia to avert war, but Italy rejected these offers.

* August 16: France and Britain offer Italy large concessions in Ethiopia to avert war which are rejected.

By the 1990s, Bank of Boston was looking to make another large acquisition, hoping to avert its own acquisition by a much larger player.

The Commission discusses the threats that have arisen, and provides society at large with accurate information about their causes and the ways to avert their consequences.

Due to the cost that " rounded " heads can have when it involves large equipment which cannot be assembled or disassembled, many efforts have been made to avert this problem.

Luther then contacts Alderman Tompkins to try to avert the riot, while Lefty and a large group of blacks, including Luther's brother-in-law John ( Ossie Davis, uncredited ), meet and plan their strategy.

The concomitant infusion of albumin can avert the circulatory dysfunction that occurs after large volume paracentesis, and may prevent HRS.

In order to avert having to conduct a war on two fronts, Domitian agreed to terms of peace with Decebalus, negotiating free access of Roman troops through the Dacian region while granting Decebalus an annual subsidy of 8 million sesterces.

Attempting to use their family connections to achieve what open politics hadn't, Edward sent his brother Edmund Crouchback ( who was both Philip's cousin and step-father-in-law ) to come to an agreement with the French Royal family that would avert war.

By 1939, Allied efforts to avert war had failed, and Germany had signed alliances with both Italy ( Pact of Steel ) and the USSR ( Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact ).

In either situation, the attempts to avert the course of past or future history both fail.

In the 1920s, many in the leadership of Weimar Germany, humiliated by the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles imposed after their defeat in the First World War ( especially General Hans von Seeckt, chief of the Reichswehr ), were interested in cooperation with the Soviet Union, both in order to avert any threat from the Second Polish Republic, backed by the French Third Republic, and to prevent any possible Soviet-British alliance.

He tried to avert the Civil War by serving as a delegate to both the 1861 Peace Conference and the Border States Convention.

On both occasions, Starr uses his formidable intellect to avert the war, on grounds that a true war would mean ruin to both worlds.

The ambassador's task in the prelude to the Thirty Years ' War was to keep James from aiding the Protestant states against Spain and Habsburg Austria, and to avert English attacks on Spanish possessions in The Americas.

Though the compromise is not explicitly mentioned in the book, it is clear that the aim of Sandorf and his fellow conspirators is to avert this ratification, seize control of Budapest and other major Hungarian cities, and get the Diet to declare instead a complete Hungarian independence-gambling that Austria, enfeebled by its recent defeat in the Austro-Prussian War, would have no choice but to accept this fait accompli.

The responsibility falling on us and Austria for the consequences which would ensure in case of refusal would be uncommonly heavy .” Five minutes later, Bethmann Hollweg asked Vienna in a second message to stop “ refusing any exchange of views with Russia ”, and warned that we “… must refuse to allow Vienna to draw us into a world conflagration frivolously and without regard to our advice .” In another message, Bethmann Hollweg wrote “ To avert a general catastrophe or in any case to put Russia in the wrong, we must urgently wish Vienna to begin and continue conversations with Russia .” As the historian Fritz Fischer noted, only when Bethmann Hollweg received a clear warning that Britain would intervene in a war did he begin to apply pressure on Austria for peace.

Despite a recovery in the results, Verona ended in an 18th place, thus being forced to play a two-legged playoff against 19th-placed Spezia in order to avert relegation.

In order to avert the risk of a general conflagration, therefore, he urged that the time had come for concerted action of the powers for the purpose of pressing the Porte to fulfil its promises.

When order starts to return to the Confederation and Joshua Calvert is questioned as to why he moved the human race to such an isolated space he justified himself by saying that this will allow humanity to avert another " reality dysfunction " as this isolation will force itself to look inwards and re-evaluate itself as a whole.

Since the Empire lacked any formal means of nominating a successor, succession usually involved the death of competing princes in order to avert civil unrest and rebellions.

Such civilizations may use various methods in order to help humanity, such as immediate actions to avert catastrophe ( i. e. creating computer glitches in nuclear-weapons systems on the eve of global nuclear conflagration ) or long-term mitigation of risks which may destroy humanity before true technological cooperation.

Alexios resorted to dissimulation in order to avert Irene's criticism of his choice and her demands that Nikephoros should succeed.

In the wake of Louis-Napoléons December coup of 1851, Eure was one of the departments placed under a state of emergency in order to avert resistance to the post-republican régime.

The Georgian Orthodox Church withdrew its membership from the World Council of Churches in 1997 in order to appease clerics strongly opposed to some of the Council's requirements and methods of operation and thereby avert a schism within the Church.

An artificially conscious machine should be able to anticipate events correctly in order to be ready to respond to them when they occur or to take premptive action to avert anticipated events.

On the other hand if he, in order to avert Home Rule, voted for a procedure which was so contrary to his previous professions, the Coalition would receive a fresh source of strength and cohesion.

An order of knights work to maintain balance of mana in the world to avert disaster, and protect the Mana Tree.

Abigail recognized what Nabal had done and chose to intervene in order to avert David's wrath.

On August 1, 1914, he went to Paris with the object of finding out whether international action by the socialists of France and Germany could be initiated in order to avert World War I.

Some leagues, such as the National Football League and the National Basketball Association have imposed salary cap rules in order to avert such bidding wars.

A secondary aspect of the Arab-Islamic garrisons was the uprooting of the aforementioned nomadic Arab tribesmen from their original home regions in the Arabian Peninsula in order to proactively avert these tribal peoples, and particularly their young men, from revolting against the Islamic state established in their midst.

Serenus, a protégé of Seneca, even pretended that Acte was his own mistress in order to avert suspicion.

In the 2009 two-part TV series, the triffids are portrayed as being a naturally occurring species from Zaire, which is discovered by the West and selectively bred as an alternative to fossil fuels in order to avert global warming.

These officials, at the command of the Senate, consulted the Sibylline Books in order to discover not exact predictions of definite future events in the form of prophecy but the religious observances necessary to avert extraordinary calamities and to expiate ominous prodigies ( comets and earthquakes, showers of stones, plague, and the like ).

As a rule, the Ottomans did not require the Greeks to become Muslims, although many did so on a superficial level in order to avert the socioeconomic hardships of Ottoman rule or because of the alleged corruption of the Greek clergy.

As this is an impossible situation because it would mean revolution on the largest scale, those whose money is invested in real estate must part with some of this, in order to finance the firms which must be kept going in order to maintain economy and avert revolution.

He is instructed by them to interfere in the creation of the Daleks on the planet Skaro in order to avert a future time where Daleks would dominate the universe.