"Depression has been forestalled only because major government borrowing and spending is filling the gap," Albert M. Wojnilower, a Wall Street economist and consultant at Craig Drill Capital, said in a newsletter last week.
The French writer Alfred de Musset worked her into one of his poems, and the director of the Paris Opéra hurried to see her, only to be forestalled by a rival impresario from London.
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.
A Third Reich made invulnerable with atomic weapons was a nightmare that had to be forestalled.
But the grim prospect of a US strike has been forestalled, if only temporarily, preventing a catastrophic deepening of the crisis there.
During his second expedition to the Antarctic in 1910-12, he reached the South Pole with four companions only to find they had been forestalled by a Norwegian group led by the lugubrious figure of Roald Amundsen.
