Sentence examples for he forestalled from inspiring English sources

Mr Major thinks he forestalled criticism by setting up the Nolan Committee on Standards in Public Life in October 1994.In education, Mr Major introduced nursery vouchers, despite the resistance of Gillian Shephard, his own education minister.

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.

In the aftermath of "Babbitt" he continually talked Babbittese, and when his second wife, the long-suffering Dorothy Thompson, was ushering him, straitjacketed, into an ambulance during an attack of the DTs, he forestalled her reproaches by expertly mimicking her: "You've ruined your life, you're ruining mine!

He forestalls obloquy and ridicule by indulging in them.

Sulzer's morality might seem egocentric, but he forestalls such an objection by an argument that normal human beings naturally desire for others what they desire for themselves, and naturally recognize the right of others to that for which they claim a right for themselves ("Psychological Considerations," p. 287).

Although Rhodes's agents secured some new territories for the company, elsewhere he was forestalled.

He ingeniously forestalled the thrill of retribution, substituting psychological suspense for physical excitement.

In any event he was forestalled in this ambition by Amundsen, who flew over the pole in Umberto Nobile's airship Norge in May 1926.

With a 5-3-2-system he can forestall that problem and gets the quality of those two as extra attacking weapons.

Moody's told Fourtou he could forestall the downgrade by finding close to a billion euros in unsecured loans.

But he had been "forestalled".