Sentence examples for forestall her from inspiring English sources

"But we recognized that [the student-athlete] might have to forestall her college plans altogether if the offer were declined".

And early on in their anticipated match Saturday on Arthur Ashe Stadium, Azarenka looked unable to forestall her demise.

Houston guard Cynthia Cooper, who won her league's initial Most Valuable Player awards, has averaged 22.8 points in four playoff games, in an effort to forestall her announced retirement.

I want to stay out of trouble.' " So this mother decided that to forestall her daughter's delinquency, she would spend several thousand dollars to send her to a foreign country?

In his recent book, Marriage of Inconvenience, Robert Brownell claims that Effie was something of an adventurer, encouraged by her importunate family to marry Ruskin to forestall her father's bankruptcy.

There's no mention in the movie of Scheherazade — the king's wife who, by narrating "One Thousand and One Nights," forestalls her own execution — but it's clear that for Mr. Mekas stories are life itself.

In the aftermath of "Babbitt" he continually talked Babbittese, and when his second wife, the long-suffering Dorothy Thompson, was ushering him, straitjacketed, into an ambulance during an attack of the DTs, he forestalled her reproaches by expertly mimicking her: "You've ruined your life, you're ruining mine!

Had Zorawski married Sklowdowska, forestalling her move to Paris for studies and, eventually, another lover, would she have discovered radium or found "the first physical evidence that enormous energy lay within the very essence of matter?" Probably not.

Some 60 years later it was claimed in a satirical poem that she had poisoned the Earl of Leicester on his deathbed, thereby forestalling her own murder at his hands, because he had found out about her supposed lover, Sir Christopher Blount.

Exemplary of the late 19th-century taste for program music or, music with a story to tell the piece evokes an image of Scheherazade (Shahrazad), the young wife of the sultan Schahriar (Shahryar), telling tales to her husband to forestall his plan to kill her.

Nice try but no amount of protestation forestalls her destiny (at least until the next sequel) as the savior of a planet beset by Serleena (Ms. Boyle), serpentine agent of evil and Victoria's Secret.