Sentence examples similar to forestall the demand from inspiring English sources

In other words, the complainant must seek to forestall the demands of some general state policy, the validity of which he challenges.

One reason cited was the need to forestall the sale of counterfeit drugs.

The object of the Chinese demand is evidently to forestall the action of the conference of representatives of the group of international bankers in Paris to determine upon the terms upon which they will undertake the financing of China and to settle the question of Russian and Japanese participation, which has brought about a serious crisis.

Bowing to popular discontent, Beijing also replaced the region's leader, Wang Lequan, whose 15-year tenure was marked by a hard-line approach that alienated many Uighurs and in the end failed to forestall the riots, prompting street protests by Han residents demanding his resignation.

Right now, the United Nations is demanding that Iran suspend its enrichment of uranium, to forestall the possibility that it might be used for a weapons program.

What lawmaker could resist demands to "do everything possible" to act on such intelligence — either to apprehend the guilty or forestall the crime.

But that may just forestall the inevitable.

And only one force could forestall the completion of….

Repealing before replacing might possibly forestall the rout.

David Sklar says his father had tried to forestall the feud.

In some cases the motivation behind making demands so onerous that the opponent cannot possibly grant them is clear: the hard-liner wants to provoke an armed conflict which he thinks he can win, and a compromise solution might forestall the war.