Sentence examples for forestall the need from inspiring English sources

To forestall the need for a drought emergency, officials are urging people to begin saving water.

So Chinese specialists say Beijing's strategy is to scare Taiwan from proclaiming its independence and forestall the need for military action.

One of the central aims of the legislation was to introduce earlier intervention with families in trouble, extending support that could forestall the need to take children into care.

Bell Atlantic said the technologies could also forestall the need for a second area code on Long Island because they would extend the life of the 516 area code by freeing up more telephone numbers.

Recently the government cancelled plans to cap an individual's care liability at £72,000 over a lifetime, plans that would, in many cases, forestall the need for people to sell their homes in order to finance their care.

For instance, Mr. Scott said Wednesday that Wal-Mart had sold 145 million compact fluorescent light bulbs, which he said had saved enough electricity to forestall the need for three coal-fired power plants in the United States.

The city and northern communities agreed 22 months ago on a broad initiative to curtail pollution in the watershed, thereby forestalling the need for the city to build a huge new filtration plant to meet Federal drinking water standards.

Aside from sounding like an ad for a chemical compound that forestalls the need to sleep, it seems to play into a popular narrative that technology allows us to be connected all the time without any apparent side effects.

Covad Chief Executive Charles Hoffman Charles Hoffman has warned that any increase in his costs would forestall the price cuts needed to convince more people to sign up.

And it's those who do so, who play ping-pong with science because of misguided bias or motivated self-interest -- who threaten to forestall the societal action needed to turn this toxic tide -- who frighten the hell out of me! www.turnthetidefoundation.org.org

A government spokesman said it took action in order to "pre-empt danger before it arrived in our country", and that he believed the Jordanian public would understand the need to forestall the jihadist group before it became active in Jordan.