Sentence examples for a forestalling from inspiring English sources

Mr. Murphy's decision can't help being read as a defense against a natural, insignificant death, a forestalling of one's mortality.

In retrospect, my mania for Beethoven may have been a way of forestalling a reckoning with my sexuality: rather than commit myself, I disappeared into a fleshless realm.

Both nations have an interest in forestalling an influx of refugees -- the Bush administration to Florida during an election year, and France to its Caribbean provinces.

It could be argued that a solidaristic society has a duty to forestall a discourse on responsibility for HIV status.

In 1994, for example, Mexico's central bank significantly increased loans to private banks, in an attempt to forestall a recession before a presidential election.

The rescue was portrayed as a move to forestall a banking crisis.

However, Microsoft's public strategy at this point is clearly driven by a need to forestall a Yahoo/Google tie-up and any other Yahoo defensive measures.

Iraq suffered several setbacks last week in what looked to be an effort to forestall a U.S. military offensive.

The move was widely viewed as an effort to forestall a costly bonus war, like the one that occurred last year.

In an attempt to forestall a repeat of the Southern Cross fiasco, the government will now force care homes to prove they are financially stable.

Tyco International said yesterday that it had lined up debt financing of $5.25 billion -- $500 million more than it had previously expected -- in an effort to forestall a cash crisis.