Sentence examples for forestall the possibility from inspiring English sources

A Kurdish leader, Jalal Talabani, pledged that fighters would begin withdrawing today to forestall the possibility of Turkish military intervention.

In the proposed legislation, Congress granted free emission allowances to coal-burning utilities to forestall the possibility of huge increases in electric bills.

The M.A.I. plans to send equipment, not money, to NVN to forestall the possibility that the money might not be used for its designated purpose.

I am sure that those who support an attack on Iran justify it on the grounds that it would be done to forestall the possibility of a bigger nightmare in the future.

In 1800, to forestall the possibility of yet another divided executive, the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans, the two leading parties of the early republic, each nominated presidential and vice presidential candidates.

For much of its running time, Mr. Mendes's "As You Like It" might almost be retitled "Some Like It Cold," so insistent are the shadows flitting at everyone's heels, threatening to forestall the possibility of things' ever turning out happily.

The platform, which belongs to a Houston-based company, Black Elk Energy, was shut and not producing, thus forestalling the possibility of a significant spill, said Capt.

The distinguishing feature of the HIE is that participants were assigned to insurance plans, which forestalls the possibility of good risks self-selecting plans with substantial cost sharing, resulting in an overestimate of the effects of plan design on health care expenditure.

In other words, for an anti-conceptual mentality a concept like "justice" would simply refer to the concrete practices that people in a given society engage in when they use the term, thereby forestalling the possibility of any critical reflection on the actual justice of those practices (1982a, ch. 4; 1999a, ch. 3).

In addition, for at least the past half decade, speculation has run rampant that either the United States or Israel, or both, might launch a preemptive attack on all elements of the Iranian nuclear complex, to forestall the (hypothetical) future possibility that Iran might someday obtain a nuclear arsenal of its own.

To forestall that possibility, the company has been aggressively buying content companies like portal site Excite as well as Matchlogic and Enliven.