His attempt to stop filibusters on judicial nominations was forestalled at the last minute, but the threat remains.All this has led to extraordinary levels of political discord, to "slash and burn" tactics affecting the institutions of government, and to a defensive zero-sum partisanship (any gain for me must be a loss for you) which is at odds with American optimism and openness.
One way the Rock Hall could have forestalled at least some criticism about its choice of inductees would have been to be pious and particular about its definition of "rock"—distinguishing it, in some specific way, from pop music writ large.
He knows that his story could be taken to be that of a victim, and so he continually heaps contempt upon himself and his opinions, neurotically forestalling at every juncture the possibility of pity.
The weather forestalled a landing at Jan Mayen, but only after we'd nearly run out of fuel and narrowly avoided clipping its resident volcano.
Ending a monthlong delay, the Suffolk Legislature has allocated $300,000 to forestall erosion at Tiana Beach in the Town of Southampton.
More importantly, or as importantly, the policy response globally has been fantastic, I mean the G20 meeting two weeks ago, policy makers agreed to give money to the IMF and World Bank to forestall problems at emerging economies and that dismissed or dispelled what could have been another serious financial problem.
In January 1819 Sir Stamford Raffles of the English East India Company, searching for a trading site, forestalled by the Dutch at Riau, and finding the Carimon (Karimun) Islands unsuitable, landed at Singapore.
More important, it forestalled an emergency hearing at the High Court of Justice that could have set off a broader review of Israeli military courts' practice of administrative detention, which has been used against thousands of Palestinians over time.
To be sure, sentimentality is at every turn forestalled by an awareness of the fallibility that is common to us, as well: as Brian Cox's bearish Jack is heard to acknowledge, "goodness wears off".
NEW ORLEANS — Three days after an explosion on an oil rig off the southeast coast of Louisiana, an environmental disaster has been at least temporarily forestalled, but the search for 11 missing workers has ended, the Coast Guard said Friday evening.
For all the jokes about the name "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," at least the title forestalled any copyright claims.
