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.
The Germans, however, by mining the exit from the harbour of Toulon, forestalled plans for the escape of the main French fleet from metropolitan France to North Africa: on November 27, the French crews scuttled their ships to avoid capture.
If Egypt had any intention of attacking Israel, Solomon's power forestalled Siamon, who presented Gezer to Israel as a dowry in the diplomatic marriage of his daughter to Solomon.
Failed to solve Rhodesian problem but forestalled Argentinian invasion of Falklands.
Three days before the summit, the police said they had forestalled a planned attack by ETA, the Basque separatist group.
Again, however, the government has made clear that its understanding of the purpose of debate was less to gauge and accommodate popular demands than to "strengthen national unity" in the face of harsh criticism from abroad, especially from America.A bitter election messageOther countries in the region have forestalled American ire by keeping up better democratic appearances.
Israel claimed there was good evidence the raid had forestalled a terrorist attack.
Yet his own death, which forestalled the trial that might have provided a full accounting of his means and motives, unleashed much wilder theories: that he was acting on behalf of the Cubans, the Mafia, or even the American government itself.
China's massive stimulus programme may have forestalled disaster in the migrant-labour force.
It was the Russians who "forestalled destructive acts" against themselves, by seeking to counterbalance the American first-strike capability represented by the medium-range Thor missiles based in Turkey.
By doing so, he has probably forestalled Republican proposals to use the surplus for tax cuts.
