Sentence examples for forestalling reality from inspiring English sources
How am I going to fill these 1,200 jobs?" In a more symbolic way, however, the transition is also very much about this process of forestalling reality, perpetuating the notion of the outsider who has arrived with pick and chisel to breach the ancient crypt of Washington and release its musty air.
He kept adding, erasing and adding again, like Penelope undoing her weaving each night to buy time, to forestall a reality that would mean closing the door on a past that she feared was gone but that she hoped, somehow, to live again.
It may be politically expedient to forestall aid for the polar bear but the reality is that the devastating effects of global warming have already arrived in the Arctic.
To forestall further acts of terror, Bangladesh's government will have to face up to that grim new reality.
Man has several means for forestalling death.
"The administration is simply forestalling the inevitable".
In reality, its powers were even greater than those of the Cheka, since, in addition to wide discretionary authority to deal with political opponents and run a network of concentration camps (the Gulag), it was charged with penetrating all economic institutions to forestall "sabotage" by so-called Nepmen.
Perception, reality; reality, perception.
The Clinton campaign may have forestalled Sanders's revolution, but forestalling the revolutionaries is another matter.
