Sentence examples for forestall disasters from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

In the Middle East, because we are already deep into the realm of having to contemplate imperfect measures that might forestall disaster, rather than solutions that anybody would find morally satisfying, the American example offers a hope, though a distant one.

These were good and necessary moves, but the greatest leverage to forestall disaster lies with China, Russia and India, who are making money off the junta and enabling it to stay in power.

Still, the company tries to forestall disaster by encouraging its call-in physicians to advise the patient, when appropriate, to get face-to-face help; they dispense that advice 8% of the time.