Sentence examples for forestalled telling from inspiring English sources

Similarly, Mr. Duane had forestalled telling his own family that he was H.I.V. positive until his nascent political career forced him to do it.

Abby forestalled a reckoning, telling herself that, for many young adults, feeling uncomfortable with one's body was just part of life.

That the biggest grain harvest the world has ever seen is not enough to forestall scarcity prices tells you that something fundamental is affecting the world's demand for cereals.The meat of the questionTwo things, in fact.

In the recent Arab Spring, Obama forestalled talking action in Libya for quite a while.

He has used the phrase "flat out" before - the last time on February 25 when, exasperated by questioning in the House of Commons, he attempted to forestall a difficult discussion about Iraq by telling everybody he was working flat out.

Johns Hopkins at least gives observation patients an information sheet telling them they're outpatients, to forestall later shock.

Exemplary of the late 19th-century taste for program music or, music with a story to tell the piece evokes an image of Scheherazade (Shahrazad), the young wife of the sultan Schahriar (Shahryar), telling tales to her husband to forestall his plan to kill her.

But he had been "forestalled".

The fear of death is thus forestalled.

More telling, in late September, he received a cash bonus of $10 million for rejoining the company, and used all of it to pay down his bank debt -- using cash to forestall the further forced sale of Enron shares.

The Clinton campaign may have forestalled Sanders's revolution, but forestalling the revolutionaries is another matter.