avert
Although that decision had averted the immediate threat to peace in the area, it had not restored the situation to where it had been before the rally. | Si bien la decisión despejó la amenaza inmediata a la paz en la zona, la situación no volvió a ser la misma que antes del rally. |
He had averted his eyes from Kwanchai, as had the others. | Había apartado los ojos de Kwanchai, igual que los otros. |
In the fifteenth century, this Dominican had averted the same danger by this means. | Ese dominico había ya conjurado, en el siglo xvi, el mismo peligro con ese método. |
Those who had averted the dragnet and remained generally scoffed at the idea of celebrating anything, much less a Passover. | Los que se habían librado de la redada y se quedaron generalmente se burlaban de la idea de celebrar algo, mucho menos una Pascua. |
That was confirmed by the Reichspresident, but no such confirmation was necessary to convince me that here I had averted what was a great danger for the State. | Eso lo confirmó el Reichspresident, pero no necesitaba esa confirmación para convencerme de que con esto había evitado un gran peligro para el Estado. |
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