Sentence examples for forestall harm from inspiring English sources

— Poetry Foundation Linens By Kay Ryan There are charms that forestall harm.

While experts on domestic violence say orders of protection can clearly forestall harm — they point out that 87 percent of the victims of family-related killings last year in New York City did not have one — a piece of paper, even one bearing the imprimatur of a court, is certainly no guarantee of safety.

That will leave Democratic senators like Christopher Dodd and Russ Feingold in the absurd position of having to stage filibusters against their own party's leadership to try to forestall more harm to civil liberties.

(Since Mr. Kopelman had told me my response might be forwarded to the buyer, I used an apologetic tone in an attempt to soften up the buyer and forestall negative feedback that might harm my seller's rating).

Likewise, making ambassadorial dispatches public can shine a disinfecting light on a government's role in unsavory deals — or hurt efforts to forestall damaging conflicts, and put undercover agents in harm's way.

No matter how gentle or loving a parent may be, trying to prevent or forestall homosexuality inevitably winds up harming a child, causing gender confusion or low self-esteem.

Now the New York Attorney General is investigating ExxonMobil along basically similar lines, as evidence makes clear that the company knew about the potential harm of climate change, and either hid that knowledge or tried to sow public doubt and forestall government action against fossil fuels, the company's lifeblood.

The report, by the National Academies Institute of Medicinee, answers a question from the National Institutes of Health, which wanted to know what it should do to forestall a potential disaster as more and more men take testosterone without knowing whether it helps or harms.

But that may just forestall the inevitable.

To forestall such failures banks maintain equity.

Also, it did nothing to forestall foreclosures.