To forestall government intervention, said Raymond V. Gilmartin, Dr. Vagelos's successor as Merck's chief executive, the industry must do more to prove the value of its medicines.
But, in a move seen as an effort to forestall government intervention, labor leaders said they would not extend the wage dispute to the oil or air transport sectors.
They were dropped, in ignorance of the effects of radiation, not only to avoid huge casualties in an invasion of Japan but also to forestall Soviet intervention in the Far East - which might not have happened had the Japanese surrendered after the first bomb.
But Mr. Ban's efforts to forestall armed intervention by the United States in the affairs of another country, without the permission of the United Nations Security Council, appeared to be having little effect, recalling the frustrations of Mr. Ban's predecessor, Kofi Annan, 10 years ago in failing to dissuade the Bush administration from attacking Iraq.
In late March, perhaps to forestall Congressional intervention, the Treasury and the Fed issued a joint press release that acknowledges this problem.
In an attempt to forestall U.S. intervention, Berlin backed away from unrestricted submarine warfare.
First enacted in 1971 to forestall congressional intervention after the COINTELPRO surveillance scandal, the guidelines originally aimed to ensure that the FBI enforces laws, rather than violating them.
The great Walter Bagehot himself described a role for central banks as market makers of last resort, which should provide free liquidity at penalty rates in order to forestall meltdown.Interventions are not the sort of thing to be undertaken lightly.
But the Damascus government forestalled foreign intervention by agreeing to a U.S.- and Russian-brokered deal under which it joined the OPCW, admitting to having a chemicals weapons program and promising to eliminate it.
And the U.N.-sanctioned NATO intervention did forestall a massacre.
