Sentence examples for forestall them from inspiring English sources

To forestall them, Alfonso offered the spoils of the city to the freebooter Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, called El Cid.

All of this suggests that, belying its immense potential, the G-20 may be better equipped to cope with the aftermath of crises rather than forestall them.

But he did too little to forestall them or to modernize Italy's economy, even as he did plenty to serve his business, legal and libidinal needs.

Blizzard, to its credit, has anticipated most of the problems that arise in the game, and does its best to forestall them.

For weeks he has tangled with officials in charge of bulldozing the wrecked houses in an effort to forestall them until he can finish.

Jodl explains his comment that Hitler was still looking for an "excuse " to move meant that he was waiting for reliable intelligence on the British plans, and defends the invasion as a necessary move to forestall them.

The American nuclear arsenal doesn't encourage local arms races; it forestalls them.

His friends had sent for him, but the other party forestalled them by bringing in a garrison from Milo, of which Nicomachus was commander.

Meanwhile the Lacedaemonians had voted to send aid to the Mytilenaeans and were making ready a strong fleet, but the Athenians forestalled them by sending to Lesbos additional ships along with a thousand hoplites.

Builders produce weighty studies that describe every imaginable "impact" on the broadly defined "environment" in an effort to forestall lawsuits accusing them of inadequate disclosure.

The Ferguson Police Department, noteworthy in the first weeks after Brown's death for its antagonism toward media and its lack of concern with optics, appeared to be trying a new approach — one that would forestall images of them putting handcuffs on dozens of men and women in clergy robes.