Sentence examples for forestall it from inspiring English sources

The broad aim is to leave Iran free from most sanctions and far enough from the ability to make a nuclear weapon that, if it were to head in that direction, America and its allies would have time to forestall it.

To forestall it, the west, beneath a mask of outward neutrality, put its weight behind one unlovely regime because it found the other unlovelier still.

She knows the worst case, and doctors have few ideas about how to forestall it.

instead of 15 are more likely to hasten the impending fuel crisis than forestall it.

This compact exhibition of 36 metal sculptures is literally about change, or rather about attempts to reverse and forestall it.

His death is written, and he'll be tampering with the physical universe if he tries to forestall it.

Regulators need to create a system and culture that forestalls it.

When the youngest of the gods, the clever Ea (Sumerian: Enki), heard about the planned attack he forestalled it by means of a powerful spell with which he poured slumber on Apsu, killed him, and built his temple over him.

As they may impact positively, facilitating engagement, or negatively, forestalling it, we employ the term used for that phenomenon in physical science (notably bio-chemistry): 'effectors'effectors

How odd to put blush on a carcass and try to forestall its decomposition because it might seem slightly less dead that way.

One possibility, he said, was that the government of Kim Jong Il was exaggerating the extent of its nuclear program to forestall what it may have viewed as the threat of attack by the United States.