A little glitch known as the global economic collapse forestalled any such plan.
The Supreme Soviet, elected in 1990 and composed mainly of former Communists, forestalled any significant moves toward a market economy.
For all the jokes about the name "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," at least the title forestalled any copyright claims.
In establishing their own small farms, they forestalled any possibility of a return to the large plantations that had defined the days of slavery.
Reproductive isolation between the populations evolving in Hawaii and the populations on continents was never directly promoted by natural selection because their geographic remoteness forestalled any opportunities for hybridizing.
And Beijing has forestalled any domestic sentiment in favor of aggressive retaliation by talking tough even while taking little action, said Wu Guoguang, a former senior Chinese official who is now a professor at Chinese University here.
