Sentence examples for forestall the worst from inspiring English sources

The current strategy is hasty pre-election bungs to forestall the worst events.

All of the efforts of the United States government, all the cajoling, the veiled threats, the high-level envoys from Washington and the 17 personal phone calls by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, failed to forestall the worst political bloodletting in modern Egyptian history.

Policy makers at the United Nations climate change summit conference in Copenhagen last month agreed on a goal of trying to keep the rise in average global temperatures to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, or 2 degrees Celsius, to try to forestall the worst effects of global warming.

Everything is going to change either as runaway climate change takes hold, with its concomitant destruction and suffering, or because a set of programs will be embraced that forestall the worst and return our planet to an atmospheric carbon level of 350 parts per million, now considered the necessary standard to avoid environmental catastrophe.

The IMF, at any rate, praised the budget.And to give it its due, the government succeeded in forestalling the worst.

"Few have any doubt that those actions have forestalled the worst-case scenario: complete seizure of the financial markets," he said.

At best this course of action will further damage any chances of a negotiated settlement between the West and Russia, at worst it will provoke a full throated Russian military response against Ukraine to forestall the delivery of arms from America.

But that may just forestall the inevitable.

And only one force could forestall the completion of….

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

Mr Asmus is caustic about the outside world's failure to forestall the conflict.