In the news conference Wednesday, however, Yellen defended the Fed's policy of gradual rate hikes as forestalling a situation that could be much more damaging for disadvantaged groups.
Office buildings are going up at a frenetic pace in mainland Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai, and some analysts worry that oversupply there will drive down rents in Hong Kong.Foreseeing trouble, however, is not the same as forestalling it.
Some supporters of the administration's tough stance on China now fear that the White House is pursuing a quicker deal that would reduce the trade deficit — a longtime goal of Mr. Trump's — as well as forestall a trade war, but sacrifice more ambitious goals the administration had discussed for reforming the Chinese economy.
They see a master strategist who has changed his tactics but not his main idea, which is to forestall as long as he can any genuine moves toward Palestinian independence.
It was good enough to make me look forward to the R.N.C. post-mortem in 2017, but not so good as to forestall the necessity of one.
Overall, scientific studies need to distinguish these highly different EC-containing particles with care and precision so as to forestall unwarranted extrapolation of properties, hazard potential, and study conclusions from one material to another.
He said that it was Torrijos's idea to have him, as his most trusted man, keep open a line of communication with the Agency, so as to forestall future attempts.
The theory of the tax immunity of either government, state or national, and its instrumentalities, from taxation by the other, has been rested upon an implied limitation on the taxing power of each, such as to forestall undue interference, through the exercise of that power, with the governmental activities of the other.
Last December, after Mr. Obama agreed to extend the Bush tax cuts — a move that many people, myself included, viewed as in effect a concession to Republican blackmail — Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic asked why the deal hadn't included a rise in the debt limit, so as to forestall another hostage situation (my words, not Mr. Ambinder's).
Slate's John Dickerson thinks gestures like this one, and Mr McCain's proposal to have members of Congress assigned to random seats during the president's state-of-the-union address so as to forestall pep-rally shenanigans by hostile right and left blocs, have some chance of winning back the former presidential candidate's reputation for bipartisanship.
However, there is the need for routine checks to ascertain the suitability or otherwise of these water sources from time to time so as to forestall permeability and infiltration problems among irrigational water quality challenges that could retard food production in the studied community.
