Sentence examples for be forestalled from inspiring English sources
verb
To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
- Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action.
Can the worst consequences be forestalled?
Can a war in Iraq be forestalled by semantics?
No more should it be forestalled by decision upon the matters of coverage.
When the mainland was weak, the question of reunification or independence could be forestalled.
For example, a proposed decrease in utility rates may be forestalled by the issuance of new revenue bonds.
They also worry about bone loss, which is precipitated by ovary surgery and can be forestalled with estrogen.
One of Dyson's more significant surmises is that a warming climate could be forestalling a new ice age.
The current campaign to demonize earnings management seems odd at best, and in some dimensions in claiming to be forestalling the demise of the stock market plain silly.
That could have been forestalled.
But he had been "forestalled".
Although Rhodes's agents secured some new territories for the company, elsewhere he was forestalled.
