Sentence examples for forestall about from inspiring English sources

The city aid package, legislators said, includes enough new revenue to cover $270 million for the second year of a teachers' contract and to forestall about 10,000 layoffs in city agencies.

By selling a factory or a few airport gates, altering distribution arrangements, or agreeing to license a technology, merger partners can often make it feasible for others to enter the market and thus forestall worries about potential anti-competitive behaviour.

In contrast, the Quai Branly Museum -- it has been given this name to forestall arguments about "primitive art" -- will aim at a more comprehensive interpretation of the role and context of the pieces on display and, in that sense, satisfy those who believe in a distinction between art created as art and objects made for, say, a religious use.

As an initial matter the new rules are intended to limit the period a target is subject to a competing bid and forestall undue rumors about a takeover.

To forestall any anxieties about the banking system, the UAE central bank said on November 29th that it "stands behind" all banks in the federation, including subsidiaries of foreign banks, offering to lend to them freely at a penalty rate.

He has used the phrase "flat out" before - the last time on February 25 when, exasperated by questioning in the House of Commons, he attempted to forestall a difficult discussion about Iraq by telling everybody he was working flat out.

When de Gaulle was called back to power eight months after Sputnik 1, he set about to forestall a threatened coup d'état by the French army, stabilize French politics, end the Algerian debacle (independence was granted in 1962 in the Treaty of Évian), and restore French power and prestige in the world.

So, practically speaking, it's way too late to forestall this "cultural affront" about which Nodler is concerned.

She knows the worst case, and doctors have few ideas about how to forestall it.

There will be no progress on solving the country's medium-term budget mess, even as concerns about the deficit forestall any short-term measures to boost employment or prop up demand.

This was because Scotland was otherwise due an alternative tax rise, which the Tories wanted to forestall; yet there was something about Thatcher's style that enraged the Scots.