Sentence examples for forestall flooding from inspiring English sources

In an interview here late last week, Mr. Stanley, who has been leading round-the-clock recovery efforts, said dredging had been used for years to forestall flooding, and he dismissed the suggestion that some buildings, or perhaps even the entire hamlet of 400 people, should be relocated.

Then, to forestall Year 2000 problems, he flooded the nation's banking system with money, canceling out the slowdown that he hoped to create with his three rate increases.

After years of double-digit expansion, China's pace of growth has cooled in recent years — a slowdown that has in part been engineered by the authorities in Beijing as they try to ease a potentially worrisome flood of lending, forestall asset price bubbles and direct the economy toward higher-quality expansion.

"Early detection of land subsidence hot spots, for example, can help forestall long-term damage to water supply and flood control infrastructure," said Jeanine Jones, a manager at the California Department of Water Resources.

It is to forestall a Greek domino effect that the European Central Bank has flooded Europe's banks with cheap money over the past two months, easing funding concerns and bringing down interest rates on Spanish and Italian bonds.

Asked whether the Broad Channel project would only forestall the inevitable, he said, "We focused on a solution that was affordable and would alleviate the flooding situation for a while".

One day after the ACLU filed suit against Arkansas Act 590 on May 28 , 1981 the Louisiana legislature tried to forestall a legal challenge to its own bill by deleting references to a young earth and worldwide (Noah's) flood (Matzke 2009).

Second, to forestall further chaos.

Can John forestall nuclear disaster?

But that may just forestall the inevitable.

To forestall such failures banks maintain equity.