Sentence examples for designed to forestall the from inspiring English sources

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".

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.

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

In this article, we report the results of a randomized controlled trial of the Family Check-Up (FCU), a family-centered, school-based intervention designed to forestall the escalation of adolescent problem behavior by promoting and motivating skillful parenting through the transition to high school.

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

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.

In a move designed to forestall any further threats of legal action the regulator has published a draft legal instrument that implements the auction rules and consultation on this closes on 11 September.

The phone call designed to forestall an email leak; however, as is well known by now, an NBF staffer mistook one homophonous title for another book not on our list.

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

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.

I took hold of the chain in the grip of my two hands and snapped it without even trying (it was nothing, a child's toy, a poor weak thing designed to forestall ordinary men), and then I rolled back the gate on its lubricated rail and in the next moment we were outside in the darkness.