Sentence examples for forestall by from inspiring English sources

It could mark a development in the software industry which Microsoft is trying to forestall by driving its chief competitor out of business.

By agreeing to the benefit changes, officials said they had persuaded the city to forestall by several months layoffs that the city has said are necessary to balance the budget.

Can a war in Iraq be forestalled by semantics?

Her death that day was forestalled by heroic measures, including a tracheotomy and ventilation.

In 628 he and his followers tried to make an Islamized hajj but were forestalled by the Meccans.

She graduated from Emerson College, in Boston, and planned to study journalism but was forestalled by marriage to William Goodman, a civil engineer.

The coming age of reason wouldn't be forestalled by ninety or so suburban enthusiasts, in puffy nylon golf jackets and raspberry-pink twinsets, talking in tongues.

Eviction was only forestalled by the intervention of State Senator Daniel Squadron, who brokered a deal with the M.T.A. in which 3LD's lease was renewed through 2023.

That could be forestalled by the presidential campaign of Gov. George W. Bush, which has been structuring the convention to make it free of controversy.

The Giants had longed for a decisive victory over the downtrodden Redskins, a goal that was most likely forestalled by the Giants' absent-minded overconfidence.

Yet for more than 30 years, drilling off most of the American coastline has been forestalled by opposition from coastal states and environmental groups.