Sentence examples for forestalled it from inspiring English sources

When the youngest of the gods, the clever Ea (Sumerian: Enki), heard about the planned attack he forestalled it by means of a powerful spell with which he poured slumber on Apsu, killed him, and built his temple over him.

The broad aim is to leave Iran free from most sanctions and far enough from the ability to make a nuclear weapon that, if it were to head in that direction, America and its allies would have time to forestall it.

To forestall it, the west, beneath a mask of outward neutrality, put its weight behind one unlovely regime because it found the other unlovelier still.

She knows the worst case, and doctors have few ideas about how to forestall it.

Regulators need to create a system and culture that forestalls it.

instead of 15 are more likely to hasten the impending fuel crisis than forestall it.

This compact exhibition of 36 metal sculptures is literally about change, or rather about attempts to reverse and forestall it.

His death is written, and he'll be tampering with the physical universe if he tries to forestall it.

The danger is that even if the C.F.O.s are right and recovery is nigh, the trepidation of the big C.E.O.s could forestall it.

Few issues have captured the attention of business leaders like the so-called fiscal cliff, the combination of spending cuts and tax increases that will take effect at the first of the year barring action in Washington to forestall it.

Britain is acting to suspend the fledging government, Mr. Mandelson said, to forestall it's being irretrievably damaged by the forced resignation of David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionist party, who is the First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly.