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
The groom, who had a roguish side, pulled Alison into a showy clasp, and the priest stepped back and led the quick applause for the couple, forestalling the biddies who would later complain that the ceremony had lacked dignity.
I've claimed to be a member of all sorts of wacky political movements in order to forestall political polls.
Republican efforts to repeal estate taxes and lower income taxes - predominantly of benefit to the wealthy - is now being marketed to the public as a way to stimulate the economy and to forestall an economic downturn.
While some doubt whether late capitalism can ever be sufficiently "greened" to forestall climate change and other global calamities, many embrace the notion that a more widely held environmental ethic can be an important component of moving the current paradigm toward something more just and sustainable. Randall Amster: Peace is the New War
Neither insisting on the greatness of these writers nonetheless, nor attempting to reinterpret or literally retranslate them into contemporary idioms and assumptions will forestall this for long. Canonical Writers
But RCTs were developed to forestall irrational medical exuberance and "cast doubt on clinical enthusiasms about new treatments," he argues, not to demonstrate "treatment effects of dubious significance," the inverse use for which the pharmaceutical industry has "commandeered" RCTs. Is A Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis the Latest Mania?
So urgent was the supposed need for Congress to forestall a catastrophic loss of teacher jobs that the House was called back from its summer recess and money looted from the food stamp program. Washington Post Editors Dismiss Teacher Layoff Crisis On Same Day Massive Teacher Layoffs Are Reported
Kolchak's answer was described as clear when "decipherable," and to his credit, he frankly declined to forestall the will of the The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
Emphasising that he would not like to "dignify" Liberhan's charge that he forestalled the submission of the 1,029-page report, Anupam Gupta said he was happy that he quit the Commission at the right time. Undefined
Would a vibrant legal debate forestall practical preparations for future unsanctioned instances of ‘power doing justice’ - albeit outside the law?
He reached to touch me and I pulled back a little, forestalling him.
Large numbers of police were in the square to forestall any demonstrations.
This is to forestall your opponent by starting an action before he begins attack on you.
'Prevent,' now used in the sense of 'hinder,' seems in this line to have something of its older meaning, viz., to anticipate (in which case 'forestalling' would be proleptic). Milton's Comus
In addition, thanks to medicine's success in curing disease and forestalling death, it is not clear that we haven't produced a culture in which death is even more unacceptable and more feared than ever before.
But I am writing these lines while I have the chance to do so, before events forestall me.
But the worry is that the overhang of plant and equipment will continue to forestall further capital investment, and that consumer spending will peter out in the face of rising unemployment and unsustainable levels of debt.
And therefore I think it no way agreeable to a true natural Historian, to pretend to be so sharp-sighted, as to see what a pre-conceiv'd _Hypothesis_ tells them should be there, where another man, though perhaps as seeing, but not forestall'd, can discover no such matter. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
Such moves, he said, could further provoke Russia at a time when the United States needs help from Moscow on other more pressing matters such as forestalling the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea. News on www.kyivpost.com
The first-person narrative moves gracefully between the literary present, in which Kear hopes to forestall Ashenden from turning out anything about Driffield and “blowing the gaff,” and the extraliterary past, when Ashenden knew the Driffields as neighbors and friends and spent many happy hours in their company. Archive 2009-04-01
Any plans for a peaceful settlement were forestalled by the intervention of the army.
It is faithfulness to a complex tradition that forestalls being overtaken by majoritarianism or convention.
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.
While the word "forestall" does permit a degree of discretion, it seems incongruous to recognize the President's power to repel attacks and yet force him to wait until the first gun is fired before implementing adequate countermeasures. Sen. Eagleton & War Powers
The arrival of a police car would have forestalled or deterred such an attack by itself.
Did religion stand prophetically on the side of the poor demanding social justice (as some Christians believe Jesus did), or did religion forestall social reform, providing deadening consolation for economic injustice (as Karl Marx argued in speaking of religion as the “opiate of the masses”)? American Grace
Once more, quick and clear communication forestalled irritation and resentment.
He'd opened his mouth to snap back a reply when he was forestalled by a resounding yelp from the creature.
Or you can advance seemingly strongly but with a reserved spirit, forestalling him with the reserve.
However, maintenance of the aging fleet has been budgeted for the coming year, and this should be sufficient to forestall any further criticism.
Immense US efforts at state-building in Afghanistan remain necessary to forestall this disaster.
The moment a good talker is aware of having broken into the speech of his converser, he forestalls interruption by waiting to hear what was about to be said. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it
So what I hope out of this will come, further cooperation and more affective cooperation than we saw in evidence, that might have forestalled the incident today.
He is also eager to forestall conjecture about the captaincy. Times, Sunday Times
He is also eager to forestall conjecture about the captaincy. Times, Sunday Times
A team of international researchers, working for the US Department of Agriculture and led by Dr Cai-Zhong Jiang, a plant physiologist at the University of California-Davis, has been experimenting with methods to forestall the natural ageing process in plants - called "senescence" - and have found that TDZ, when added to water in concentrations of five-10 parts per million, can achieve Life and style | guardian.co.uk
Agricultural authorities, it appears, are deaf to the pleas of farmers desperate to forestall an impending disaster.
Our studies show that neurofeedback in early stages of deployment can actually forestall descent into PTSD, as well as providing dramatic results for both active duty soldiers and veterans suffering from this debilitating condition. Craig Newmark: Neurofeedback treatment for PTSD?
Dreamers might also experience prophetic dreams that they would convey to others to forestall danger.
Why, I even remember back to the end of 2001, when the general mood seemed to favor bold action to forestall future catastrophe.
Now I had but one fear, namely, that they would unlace me; so that it must be understood that my reply was not uttered in braggadocio but was meant to forestall any possible unlacing. Chapter 11
Chances that delaying the noise-making about torture prosecutions for a week would forestall efforts to see justice done: negligeable. Matthew Yglesias » Above the Law?
He closed his eyes, raising a hand to forestall her.
It was thought wrong for anyone to purchase goods outside of the regular market ( "forestalling") or to purchase them in larger quantities than necessary ( "engrossing"). Early European History
They forestalled any attempt to steal the jewels by having them moved to a safer place.
But, to forestall a rebellion among the unemployed, they skew the numbers each month to make the problem seem far less than it is.
Concentrated oil wealth at the top has forestalled political change.
The goal of this convention is to forestall an uncontrolled unwinding of a series of untimed shocks to the world economy as new discoveries of previously hidden financial landmines are triggered. David Calhoun Mendelsohn: Transparency, Justice and Clarity in the Economic Crisis
An accurate prediction, even though actual debate was forestalled by a campaign of misinformation and intimidation.
Setting the official yuan-dollar exchange rate at a record high signals a commitment to letting the currency rise, forestalling destabilizing capital flight.
That being the case, Christians must welcome, rather than object to, any measure to forestall fraudulent conversions.
But lawyers and police say the practice remains common in urban and rural areas, where such settlements can forestall or end lasting intertribal battles. Pakistanis say 'blood money' might win release of jailed CIA contractor
Which d'you think, 'forestall' or 'outmaneuver'? Operation Luna
If they are able, they may slow down time itself and forestall the fall of night. If not, there is always another chance; the fall of night will bring dreams that enlighten future journeys.
Both groups advance comparable 10 point legislative agendas that would stabilize democracy long enough for us to forestall the worst and regroup for more long-term reparation of the Constitution and the rule of law. Naomi Wolf: Finally, Action! Ron Paul Introduces Bill to Defend Constitution!
He recovered on the 19th, but by then, Stalin, whose confidence in his generals was always easily shaken, had decided to hedge his bet by forestalling the Americans.
He had the volume down and his spectacles upon his nose instanter, as though to forestall some possible retractation. The Wrong Box
He seemed about to speak, but Rowena forestalled him with a kiss.
Some pueblos are thronged with tourists at special ceremonies, but others remain closed to the public or prohibit filming and photography so as to forestall commercialism and disrespect.
- I should like to know what her Estimate is-but am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever-& of finding my own story and my own people all forestalled. Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others
But to forestall the recognition of a Palestinian state he will happily cosset influential end-timers like Glenn Beck, who apparently has a touch of Jerusalem syndrome, a religiously-induced form of psychosis I first learned about from an episode of The X-Files, in which a grey-haired millionaire leaves a trail of mayhem and destruction in his wake following a trip to the holy city. Ariel Gonzalez: Infallible Israel
I opened my mouth to argue with him, although he was right, but Timur's next words forestalled me.
It's a bad business, and we must redouble our efforts to forestall it. Christianity Today
To forestall a democratic counter-attack, the oligarchs set fire to the buildings around the agora, causing massive loss of property and risking a general conflagration.
Such moves, he said, could further provoke Russia at a time when the U.S. needs help from Moscow on other more pressing matters such as forestalling the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea. - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community
So I put up a hand to forestall him and said, ‘It's working quite well, thank you.’
Hoping to forestall Henry by attacking and demoralising his supporters, Stephen laid siege to Wallingford Castle on the Thames, a dozen miles south-east of Oxford.
The Academy succeeded in forestalling labor unrest for five years, but when the studio executives used the occasion of Roosevelt's bank holiday in 1933 to cut screenwriters 'salaries (though not their own), the writers rebelled. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
To forestall property-tax increases, for instance, some homeowner groups recommended higher business taxes.
He would have spoken, but David forestalled him.
In face of this social misery, the ruling coalition has resorted to forestalling parliamentary elections and thwarting an inquiry into corruption.
By giving careful attention to the regimen and providing regular exercise for susceptible subjects, this type of lymphangitis is often forestalled. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
Thomas was presented as a regrator or forestaller of barley and wheat at Snitterfield Court, held Shakespeare's Family
Try to anticipate what your child will do and forestall problems.
A milieu deeply penetrated by interpersonal distrust forestalls the development of associability and mass membership in associations.
Quebec's perennial threat of separation from Canada has only been forestalled by massive devolution of governing powers from Ottawa to Quebec City.
In sum, while religion did not create or encourage the feminist revolution of the last half century, neither did religion do much to forestall it, even among the most fervent opponents of the near-simultaneous revolution in sexual morality. American Grace
His attempt to take power by force was forestalled by a West African peacekeeping force financed largely by Nigeria.
Putting it this way, it seems to me, might forestall invidious appeals to sheer archivalism, or to a relevance-averse kind of antiquarianism that, in my experience, very few students of considerable ambition and intelligent conviction will now be likely to take up. Presentism and the Archives
The intelligence agencies, humiliated by their failure to forestall the attacks, are desperate to prove themselves.
The pistole is a Spanish gold coin worth about four dollars; formerly the French pistole was worth in France ten _livres_ -- about ten francs -- they were struck in Franche-Comté.] we should have no need now to think of and try to find out what means we must employ in compassing our wishes; we might, by purchasing this slave quickly, prevent your rival from forestalling and thwarting you. The Blunderer
They forestalled any attempt to steal the jewels by having them moved to a safer place.
Any plans for a peaceful settlement were forestalled by the intervention of the army.
When the powers at Vienna, in 1815, were rearranging the map of Europe they had joined Belgium with Holland as the kingdom of the Netherlands, with the idea of forestalling any further advance of France in that quarter. Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century
Almost certainly the timing would be calculated to forestall possible discovery and defusing by a Nuclear Emergency Search Team.
Berthier, Intendant (say, Tax-levier) of Paris; sycophant and tyrant; forestaller of Corn; contriver of Camps against the people; -- accused of many things: is he not Foulon's son-in-law; and, in that one point, guilty of all? The French Revolution
However, maintenance of the aging fleet has been budgeted for the coming year, and this should be sufficient to forestall any further criticism.
Japan's ‘lost decade’ provides vivid testimony to the fact that pervasive government intervention merely forestalls the market clearing mechanism, rather than purging it of its speculative excesses.
While it certainly won't forestall all attacks on my personhood, perhaps some will be defused.
The slow and ugly approach is to mitigate, temporize and forestall to give us time to work ourselves out of difficulties. Notable & Quotable
Madison and the other Founders attempted to forestall democracy by devising a republic, the hallmark of which was the preservation of individual liberty.
Onslow had forestalled me, having cleared away the wreck off the starboard locker, restored the tablecloth to its proper position, and rearranged such portions of the table equipage as had not been smashed in the capsizal. The Castaways
Any plans for a peaceful settlement were forestalled by the intervention of the army.
But archaeologists found themselves on the wrong side of history, overtaken by events that they tried hard to forestall.
The drug companies do take advantage of these things to forestall cheaper generics.
It's a bad business, and we must redouble our efforts to forestall it. Christianity Today
We will make a few suggestions here in an attempt to forestall readers from making avoidable mistakes.
To forestall that risk, appropriations conferees who support the McCain amendment will seek to block any effort to drop the amendment from the appropriations bill unless the White House promises that the President to sign the authorization bill as well. Think Progress » Strategy Memo: How the Right Plans to Sink the Anti-Torture Amendment Behind Closed Doors
So rather than sort of eliminating politics it really might just kind of forestall it and really kind of rile it up over the next 48 months. CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2008
Lyndon Johnson, a veteran of Senate arm-twisting and cajoling, jawboned to forestall airline and railroad strikes and such. Other presidents 'jawbone,' but Obama 'extorts'
These can weaken the enemy, forestall his attack, and potentially force his retreat.
Darwin did so, shocked that he had been "forestalled". Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
S. 440 carefully circumscribes the President's discretion to "forestall" by placing the burden on him to prove that an attack is "direct and imminent. Sen. Eagleton & War Powers
You'll see a solution as to whether or not you can cut him down, to throw him, to avoid what is happening, to forestall him before he can actually bring the attack to bear.
All those bound south and west must have halted and foregathered again here to take counsel after the failure of the bishops 'endeavours for peace, and see how best to take advantage of the time, before their enemies forestalled them. A River So Long
Sapphire, at least the title forestalled any copyright claims. NYT > Home Page
But inasmuch as the keenest observer may overlook the right moment when the psoric poison begins to operate, it is well to forestall the enemy at the very commencement, which may be done with the more propriety, the more certainly we know that these two remedies, Apis and the anti-psoric, not only not counteract, but mutually support each other from the beginning to the end of the treatment. Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent
Hence ensues grief and disreputation to the innocent captain, loss and disappointment to the worthy merchant, and not seldom great prejudice to the trade of a nation whose manufactures are thus liable to lie unsold in a foreign warehouse the market being forestalled by some rival whose sailors are under a better discipline. The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
But wise investment in more sensible equipment can help forestall disasters that undermine the confidence of citizens in their institutions.
The "bait and switch scheme," whereby by the FED would buy and warehouse (I was actually tempted to use the word whorehouse here) worth-less or worthless securities for financial entities at their booked carrying values to preclude write-down and forestall inevitable insolvency, will buy some time, but it doesn't fix anything. Financial Sense Newshour
Mr. Stone then takes issue with S. 440's recognition of the President's power to "forestall" an attack on the US or our Forces abroad. Sen. Eagleton & War Powers
Now I had but one fear: namely, that they would unlace me; so that it must be understood that my reply was not uttered in braggadocio, but was meant to forestall any possible unlacing. Chapter 11
They forestalled any attempt to steal the jewels by having them moved to a safer place.
These local magistrates cum merchants therefore had a vested interest in forestalling the equation between plebeian female respectability and the private sphere. Gutenber-e Help Page
AFAIK, some states have such a system set up for pools of lawyers to defend indigents and/or capital cases (where the state has an interest in forestalling “ineffective counsel” appeals and wants to ensure that suitably qualified lawyers are onboard). The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Liz Cheney
I understand my duty to my sheep or cattle, to my master, to my father or mother, to my brother or sister, to my pupil Davie here; I owe my ancestors love and honour, and the keeping of their name unspotted, though that duty is forestalled by Donal Grant, by George MacDonald
Lofting, held up his palm, Indian greeting style, to / forestall the offer. THE INNOCENT
She touched his tears with a hand that trembled, but when she tried to speak, he forestalled her, touching his fingers to her lips.
The shifting scale which allows the artist to see events from both a macroscopic and microscopic perspective forestalls the despair which enveloped his hero Goya at the end of his life.
In the link of petrifaction industry catenary, existence nature forestall and domain of blame nature forestall.
If he survived long enough for the projected Parliamentary session in September 1553 — called for the specific purpose of ratifying the new succession order — then there would be little that Mary could do to forestall her own disinheritance. 34 In the 1530s Mary had publicly resisted her own disinheritance to little avail. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
She believed in the messages of her soul's voices; they told her of the great horrors of her world, and about the ways of the hero who could forestall the terrors of war, pillage and rapine.
To forestall him, however, supporters of the fallen ministers in Paris were now planning a very different sort of coup: popular intervention on a scale not seen since the ill-fated Champ de Mars petition the year before.
Romantic indecision often annoys me, especially when the fulcrum of the triangle is merely forestalling a difficult but inevitable choice. 20 « January « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon
So Aenesidemus is said to have sent the ‘cottabus’ prize to Gelon, who had just reduced a town to slavery, because Gelon had got there first and forestalled his own attempt. Rhetoric
While these actions are indeed forestalling a severe downturn, they are significantly increasing the probabilities for much worse down the road.
Because practitioners create safety locally, efforts to forestall errors by isolating practitioners from the system will misfire.
But to forestall the recognition of a Palestinian state he will happily cosset influential end-timers like Glenn Beck, who apparently has a touch of Jerusalem syndrome, a religiously-induced form of psychosis I first learned about from an episode of The X-Files, in which a grey-haired millionaire leaves a trail of mayhem and destruction in his wake following a trip to the holy city. Ariel Gonzalez: Infallible Israel
There was some doubt as to the starting of a great favourite, owing to a report that the owner had been "forestalled" -- an excuse which always sounds very weak to me, as surely if outsiders can back a horse at Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892
I _should_ like to know what her estimate is, but am always half afraid of finding a clever novel _too clever_, and of finding my own story and my own people all forestalled. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
He opened his mouth, to address that - again - but she forestalled him.
All the forenamed are responsible for correcting and forestalling mistakes. COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE
I had my objection all prepared, but Stephens forestalled me.
Now it was warmer in the cabin's single room, and Adam had lit a lamp to forestall the gathering gloom.
In order to forestall this unhappy eventuality, she proposes restricting the use of the money to child care, education for the parent, or retirement benefits for the parent.

How To Use Forestall In A Sentence

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