Sentence examples for forestall in from inspiring English sources

To forestall: In an attempt to avoid a U.N. showdown, international leaders are encouraging Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to submit a letter of recognition, placing an official vote on statehood on hold.

This was forestalled in June 1982 by the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

One killing happens in a black-out at the rise of the curtain, another at the end of the first act, and the third is unconvincingly forestalled in time for the end of the second (and last) act.

In any event he was forestalled in this ambition by Amundsen, who flew over the pole in Umberto Nobile's airship Norge in May 1926.

While controversial oil pipelines have been forestalled in places like Nebraska because of the organizing of church women and others, the oil companies are now shipping oil via train tanks.

More recently, we have shown that aging-associated declines in motor coordination, grip strength, balance, and agility are delayed, attenuated, and/or prevented in aging GHR-KO mice (Arum et al., 2013) and that aging-associated declines in blood glucose regulatory homeostasis and dynamics are blunted or forestalled in aging GHR-KO mice (Arum et al., 2014).

Far from giving rivals a "free ride", Telstra appears intent on using every trick possible to forestall competition in markets in which it does not have a natural monopoly.

The White House is entertaining a range of possibilities that would speed up deportations in some cases but forestall them in many others.

It is both highly sensible and ethically desirable to perform a pilot study in order to detect and forestall problems in the main study.

What role should researchers play in facilitating change and how can they forestall reductions in diversity?

HONG KONG — The booming pace of China's manufacturing growth slowed somewhat in May, as an array of government steps to forestall overheating in the giant economy began to take effect, data showed Tuesday.