Sentence examples for forestalled for from inspiring English sources

Kakail's story is one of destiny forestalled for three generations.

City would have been embarrassed had Bamford kept a header on target on the stroke of the interval but their discomfort was not forestalled for long, as they went behind early in the second half to one of the comedy goals of the season.

Frankel also faults Applebaum for not having written about matters tangential or irrelevant to the topic of this book — how Soviet colonization "might have been forestalled," for example — and for not speculating about "what methods of intervention for freedom" should be applied now in Cuba, North Korea, Syria or China.

It was only with luck, Benjamin Franklin mulled during the debates of the Constitutional Convention, that the framers would "produce a government that could forestall, for a decade perhaps, the decline of the Republic into tyranny".

Christmas comes not to ratify wealth or measure prosperity but to brighten the hungry darkness of winter, to offer warmth in the dire cold, to signal spiritual and physical renewal, to forestall for a few days and nights what the rest of the year cannot promise to forestall.

By going back to meeting behind closed doors with Mr. Bruno and Sheldon Silver, the Democratic Assembly speaker, the governor forestalled -- for the moment anyway -- what most likely would have led to his veto and a bruising fight for override votes; in other words, political chaos.

This agency forestalled foreclosures for middle- and lower-income homeowners.

Pride forestalled asking neighbors for help (or allowing her full name in print).

But Hewitt, who has already forestalled his exit for longer than anyone could have anticipated, will not go quietly.

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.

One killing happens in a black-out at the rise of the curtain, another at the end of the first act, and the third is unconvincingly forestalled in time for the end of the second (and last) act.