Sentence examples for forestall a situation from inspiring English sources

Peter Mandelson, Britain's secretary for Northern Ireland, said he had to take the action to forestall a situation in which Mr. Trimble would be pressured into resigning his leadership of the Ulster Unionists.

A vesting plan can help forestall a situation I've seen too many times to count: A founder with a 20 or 30percentt stake loses enthusiasm and moves on after six or eight or 10 months, necessitating the buyback of their shares and/or their transfer to other founders.

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.

Such a situation deprived the French any prepared defences in Belgium to forestall an attack, a situation which the French had wanted to avoid as it meant engaging the German Panzer Divisions in a mobile battle.

To forestall such a situation, the Project officials should take into account the practical aspects of their promises, prior to making such promises.

Drawing parallels with the current Dow Jones situation, Auletta wrote about events in January 1977: "To try to forestall a Murdoch takeover of New York Magazine 30 years ago, about 40 writers and editors and art directors went on strike.

(e) To engross or forestall a commodity.

First, could it hope to forestall a crisis?

Policymakers are now scrambling to forestall a crunch.

And the U.N.-sanctioned NATO intervention did forestall a massacre.

And what could the community do to forestall a reoccurrence?