Sentence examples for forestall efforts from inspiring English sources

Jordan, which has remained largely stable as the Arab world has combusted around it, has taken measures to upgrade its border security to forestall efforts to establish a rebel base in Jordan.

The House, in an effort to forestall efforts by some senators to add pet projects to the antiterrorism bill that they thought had been settled last Thursday, brought the measure up for debate this evening.

Her pledge came on a day when a group of independent organizations issued a call for help to forestall efforts they say the Vatican and some conservative Islamic and Catholic countries are making to reverse gains achieved five years ago at the Fourth International Conference on Women.

That strategy has inspired similar challenges to nuclear plants in other parts of the country, and nuclear industry executives said they expected that the government's ruling yesterday would help forestall those efforts.

Will the affiliates be able to forestall similar efforts in the future?

Nate makes it sound like the "street fight" was of the scientists choosing, completely turning on its head what Nature was actually talking about: scientists finding a better way to defend science from cynical attacks whose sole aim is to confuse the public about what we actually do know about climate change (and therefore forestall any efforts to deal with it).

Shirley was only able to forestall this effort by promising the colonial administration that he would achieve financial stability in the province by retiring its paper currency.

"This paper demonstrates the enormous safety risks that any such attempt would entail, and underlines the urgency of working to forestall other such efforts," Marcy Darnovsky, of the Center for Genetics and Society, told National Public Radio when the report was published.

The palace did not explain why it had reneged on its plan to make both statements simultaneously, but one possibility is that it wanted to forestall potential tabloid efforts to follow the car in a dangerous fashion while trying to photograph the contents of the paper.

With friends like these, we may not need enemies to forestall our best efforts.

Tells about our efforts to forestall inadvertent detonation of nuclear weapons.