Sentence examples for been designed to forestall from inspiring English sources

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Both earlier measures had been designed to forestall armed thieves, but the neighborhood has seen sharp declines in crime since the 1990s.

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Thus the process has produced the one outcome it was designed to forestall.

Haiti's political system was designed to forestall strongmen, and as such, gives parliament a lot of power.

Clearly, this use of an ethnic/religious label provoked strong feelings based on a long history of strong feelings — exactly the kind of reaction that The Times's policy is designed to forestall.

But, in the following days, Trump made comments to Lester Holt, of NBC News, and to a group of Russian diplomats, in the Oval Office, to the effect that the firing was designed to forestall the Russia investigation — and thus constitutes a possible obstruction of justice.

In fact, one suspects that the PR release of this "confession" (and the news that, while he was writing the book, Irving did at last find out who his father was) is designed to forestall the criticism such a dreadful, though clearly heartfelt, mess like this deserves".

Everything leaders do to grow a business is designed to forestall the day when that growth stops.

US military chiefs planned a massive reinforcement of American military forces in South Korea - a process that risked provoking the pre-emptive North Korean strike that it was designed to forestall.

But their calls for reform, like Gorbachev's attempt to reform the Soviet system, can probably only be achieved by the regime's collapse, which is what the trials are designed to forestall.

A feature of the Constitution which was designed to forestall the rise of Leviathan in a different time and place has been transformed by modern day right wing politicians into the helpmate of the 21st century Leviathan that actually reigns, largely unchecked, on the banks of the Potomac.

rates low, even in the face of strong economic growth, is probably designed to forestall a devastating loss at Freddie.

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