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How To Use forestalling In A Sentence

• 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.
• All the forenamed are responsible for correcting and forestalling mistakes. COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE
• While these actions are indeed forestalling a severe downturn, they are significantly increasing the probabilities for much worse down the road.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In face of this social misery, the ruling coalition has resorted to forestalling parliamentary elections and thwarting an inquiry into corruption.
• 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