Sentence examples for forestall disaster from inspiring English sources

At others, it has involved a desperate scramble to forestall disaster.

Generators are a way -- although a tricky one -- to forestall disaster.

Fast is good, though even here, a little bit of friction can forestall disaster when you encounter an icy road.

But Gruber argued that it might not be necessary to fully repair the Web site to forestall disaster.

There were several opportunities to forestall disaster, but all of them were blocked by apparently implacable opposition.

To forestall disaster, Lenin instituted the New Economic Policy (NEP), which amounted to a partial restoration of capitalism, especially in retail trade, small-scale production, and agriculture.

Containers to Clinics is one of many innovative approaches to building or rebuilding infrastructure in developing countries, to help forestall disasters or, as in Haiti, recover from one.

The capacity of homo sapiens (who should perhaps be called, with less hubris, "homo stultus" because few, if any, other species, consciously destroy their habitats) to foresee and forestall disasters is limited.

China's massive stimulus programme may have forestalled disaster in the migrant-labour force.

Holbrooke must know that there will be no American victory in this war; he can only try to forestall potential disaster.

"None have happened yet, but it's going to any day," contends lawyer Christopher Dolan, who says he's trying "to forestall a disaster".