Sentence examples for forestall potential from inspiring English sources

Holbrooke must know that there will be no American victory in this war; he can only try to forestall potential disaster.

Just as he had contributed decisively to the creation of the League of the Three Emperors (Dreikaiserbund) by appearing in Berlin in 1873 by the side of Tsar Alexander II, he endeavoured also on later occasions to forestall potential conflicts with Russia through personal contacts, without realizing the fundamental nature of the antagonism between the two countries.

The palace did not explain why it had reneged on its plan to make both statements simultaneously, but one possibility is that it wanted to forestall potential tabloid efforts to follow the car in a dangerous fashion while trying to photograph the contents of the paper.

In order to forestall potential challenges, China's leadership has increasingly muzzled the press, limiting, in particular, reporting or commentary that could adversely affect stock prices or the currency.

The appointment was largely symbolic, and Ismay "was at least partly appointed to forestall potential criticism by his friend Winston Churchill".

It has also highlighted important but modifiable predictors and early markers of childhood immunisation delays in this region that will facilitate improved services for routine BCG immunisation and forestall potential snowballing of delays to subsequent immunisation in early childhood.

Three days after the attack, President Barack Obama ordered airstrikes on the Islamic State to forestall a potential genocide of fifty thousand Yazidis.

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.

Instead, Western petroleum executives say they want prices to stay high so they can keep investing in unconventional sources of oil in places like the Arctic or the deep offshore, and to forestall a potential shortfall in supply.

Does Moscow really think that sticking its neck out pre-emptively to forestall any potential future sanctions vote in case of an uprising in Belarus is worth earning the hatred and contempt of the youth of the Muslim world?

Neman, thirty-three, who started Sweetgreen with two Georgetown University classmates, in 2007, wanted to forestall the potential fallout from the new menu, which was introduced in the restaurant's eighty-seven locatinns, in March, by reviewing a contingency plan that he began working on last year.