Sentence examples for forestalled by from inspiring English sources

Can a war in Iraq be forestalled by semantics?

Her death that day was forestalled by heroic measures, including a tracheotomy and ventilation.

In 628 he and his followers tried to make an Islamized hajj but were forestalled by the Meccans.

The Giants had longed for a decisive victory over the downtrodden Redskins, a goal that was most likely forestalled by the Giants' absent-minded overconfidence.

The coming age of reason wouldn't be forestalled by ninety or so suburban enthusiasts, in puffy nylon golf jackets and raspberry-pink twinsets, talking in tongues.

She graduated from Emerson College, in Boston, and planned to study journalism but was forestalled by marriage to William Goodman, a civil engineer.

It could mark a development in the software industry which Microsoft is trying to forestall by driving its chief competitor out of business.

By agreeing to the benefit changes, officials said they had persuaded the city to forestall by several months layoffs that the city has said are necessary to balance the budget.

His fulfillment is such that the job is also a source of anxiety, which can be forestalled only by greater and greater exertions.

There's a particular kind of disgrace that comes from not having money, and it can be forestalled only by actually getting paid.

Mr Major thinks he forestalled criticism by setting up the Nolan Committee on Standards in Public Life in October 1994.In education, Mr Major introduced nursery vouchers, despite the resistance of Gillian Shephard, his own education minister.