The Axis command aimed to forestall that danger by dislocating both forces opposing them.
Mr. Hall's unimaginative direction and the show's lulling, pedestrian rhythms forestall any danger of being truly engaged with either plot.
To forestall that danger, a proposal by the government's independent council of economic experts to pool excessive debt has garnered increasing attention.
At the Fed's annual policy symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo., late last month, the Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, made clear he was prepared to take additional action to forestall the danger that the American economy might fall into deflation, a sustained period of falling prices like the one that has afflicted Japan since the early 1990s.
We therefore conclude that prevention of filicide cannot remain the task of psychiatry alone, but health care and society at large must work to forestall the danger of filicide.
OK, fine — but let's try to take advantage of this sense of panic to calmly and rationally forestall the real dangers, before they arrive.
Others have suggested that the agency was too tough, even if subliminally, in an effort to forestall any perception of a conflict, and that the danger of a Volt catching fire was remote.
And indeed, if you listen to the few pundits who actually know what they're talking about, such as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, a Nobel laureate in economics, there remains a danger that Obama still hasn't done enough to forestall another Great Depression.
A government spokesman said it took action in order to "pre-empt danger before it arrived in our country", and that he believed the Jordanian public would understand the need to forestall the jihadist group before it became active in Jordan.
The danger is that even if the C.F.O.s are right and recovery is nigh, the trepidation of the big C.E.O.s could forestall it.
But that may just forestall the inevitable.
