Sentence examples for forestalled development from inspiring English sources

The government's great mistake, it said, was in trying to second-guess the market by deciding, when it set out the broad sweep of airport policy in 2003, when and where new runways should be built.This unintentionally forestalled development at the main airports when new capacity proved to be required earlier than expected.

Not all of his beliefs were welcome to all Quakers: his Puritan-like opposition to the arts and rejection of theological study, forestalled development of these practices among Quakers for some time.

Yet even if President Clinton had signed the bill, lawsuits by local native groups and environmentalists might have forestalled development, cautioned Shirley Neff, a former economist with the Senate Energy Committee -- then Democratic controlled.

'Fanning out' forestalled track development in some parts of the range but proved ineffective even as a short-term measure on steep, confined terrain.

The treatment restored normal growth in the mice and forestalled skeletal defects characteristic of achondroplasia, the researchers report online today in Science Translational Medicine.

The planes-turned-missiles were not forever forestalled.

Failed to solve Rhodesian problem but forestalled Argentinian invasion of Falklands.

Had he acted tougher, and perhaps risked more, he might well have forestalled or limited some of the worst abuses.

As with Ivory Coast, forestalled and unresolved successions often invite ethnic polarization and heightened competition along other identity lines, from geographic to religious to linguistic.

The 787 had weighed heavily on Boeing's results in recent years as production delays increased the cost of the planes and forestalled revenue.

Action to prepare for a dual meltdown was not a case of "forewarned is forearmed," he said, but more like "forewarned is forestalled".