forestall

How To Use forestall In A Sentence

• Immediately after winning the battle, he resumed the policies that had forestalled military success.
• They essentially amounted to a crude pre-emptive strike designed to forestall any leadership challenge and the natural targets were those with whom he has crossed swords in the past.
• His main feelings were rivalry with Wallace ” the feeling of rivalry was very strong in him ” and being "terribly anxious" that Wallace would "forestall" him (he was also anxious because of illness and death in his family). Darwin's Complaint
• Jenica turned, eyes blazing, to Brian, but he forestalled her.
• In reality, it is the outcome of the growing national opposition faced by the occupying forces, which no amount of chicanery will forestall.
• I don't want her reporting this car to the police, and I didn't know what else to offer to forestall her.
• Chris looked to interrupt, but Sam held up a hand, forestalling him.
• The very idea made her heart race, but he raised a finger, forestalling her outburst.
• The common construction put upon the expression, "_rule with rigor_," and an inference drawn from it, have an air so oracular, as quite to overcharge risibles of ordinary calibre, if such an effect were not forestalled by its impiety. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
• Portugal, in an attempt to 'forestall' a debt crisis, has already begun imposing austerity measures, including "cutting welfare benefits and government hiring as well as selling assets and raising taxes. Signs of the Times