Sentence examples for forestall a war from inspiring English sources

A C.I.A. operative is ordered to destroy Iran's nuclear weapons to forestall a war with Israel.

A1 Pakistan Arrests Militant In what appeared to be a last-ditch effort to forestall a war with India, Pakistan arrested Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, one of two Islamic militant groups accused by India of mounting a deadly attack on the Indian Parliament, news services reported.

That same year, Mr. Vance was credited with forestalling a war between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus.

But it seems unlikely that either campaign would be inclined to open negotiations for something analogous to a prenuptial agreement in order to forestall a postelection war.

Some supporters of the administration's tough stance on China now fear that the White House is pursuing a quicker deal that would reduce the trade deficit — a longtime goal of Mr. Trump's — as well as forestall a trade war, but sacrifice more ambitious goals the administration had discussed for reforming the Chinese economy.

Reimposing penalties on ZTE could further strain relations between the United States and China, which are locked in a standoff over trade and have been trying in vain to reach an agreement to forestall a trade war between the world's two largest economies.

The move was widely viewed as an effort to forestall a costly bonus war, like the one that occurred last year.

The governor there, a senior S.P.L.A. official named Malik Aggar, told me that he had tried to forestall a return to war by talking directly with the Sudanese dictator.

Bol died on Saturday from a noxious mix of ailments, exacerbated by his insistence on working in Sudan to build schools and forestall a new civil war.

Wrongly suspected by Zeus (Sean Bean) of stealing the lightning bolt required to wield absolute power, Percy embarks on a quest to retrieve it and clear his name in time to forestall a world-destroying war among the gods.

Harry Truman had seized the country's steel mills to forestall a strike during the Korean War.