Sentence examples for forestalled by a from inspiring English sources

The French writer Alfred de Musset worked her into one of his poems, and the director of the Paris Opéra hurried to see her, only to be forestalled by a rival impresario from London.

The doleful Torringtons are planning an elegant party, but the celebration is forestalled by a nearby train derailment that floods their manor house with a throng of down-market passengers and one demonic aristocrat, all in need of shelter.

The celebration is forestalled by a nearby train derailment that floods the Torringtons' hallways with a throng of down-market passengers and one demonic aristocrat, all in need of shelter.

During his second expedition to the Antarctic in 1910-12, he reached the South Pole with four companions only to find they had been forestalled by a Norwegian group led by the lugubrious figure of Roald Amundsen.

Although British voters have for decades wanted out of the European Union, that possibility has hitherto been expertly forestalled by a less-than-democratic left-right alliance of London-based elites.

The attack was forestalled by a German retirement on the night of 10/11 June.

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".

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

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

Insurgencies by industrial workers, powerful third-party threats to replace capitalism with something else, rallies and marches of the unemployed, and, yes, occupations, even seizures of private property, foreclosures forestalled by infuriated neighbors, and a pervasive sense that the old order needed burying had their lasting effect.

Among planned engagements forestalled by his death were a production of Otello at the Royal Opera House, which would have been his first appearance there for nearly 20 years, and opera recordings for EMI, including Puccini's Manon Lescaut and Verdi's Falstaff.