Sentence examples for is forestalled by from inspiring English sources

Any tendency to laugh at the characters who people "Ecstasy" is forestalled by the ravishing empathy with which Mr. Leigh's pitch-perfect sextet of performers brings them to life.

The doleful Torringtons are planning an elegant party, but the celebration is forestalled by a nearby train derailment that floods their manor house with a throng of down-market passengers and one demonic aristocrat, all in need of shelter.

The celebration is forestalled by a nearby train derailment that floods the Torringtons' hallways with a throng of down-market passengers and one demonic aristocrat, all in need of shelter.

But irritation is forestalled by the acuity of the writing and by the wiry charisma of Ben Whishaw who, having played Hamlet, knows a thing or two about vacillating uncertainty.

How much economic growth is forestalled by the fear of abject poverty and/or complete inability to take economic risks or foster creativity and innovation caused by abject poverty?

The prospective "slippery slope" of secession -- in which continually smaller units of affiliation declare their independence from larger ones -- is forestalled by the apparent desire of a faction at the state level simply to consolidate their power and enjoy a "free hand" to impose apartheid policies and severe austerity measures that are immunized against contestation either from above or below.

Can a war in Iraq be forestalled by semantics?

Her death that day was forestalled by heroic measures, including a tracheotomy and ventilation.

In 628 he and his followers tried to make an Islamized hajj but were forestalled by the Meccans.

She graduated from Emerson College, in Boston, and planned to study journalism but was forestalled by marriage to William Goodman, a civil engineer.

The coming age of reason wouldn't be forestalled by ninety or so suburban enthusiasts, in puffy nylon golf jackets and raspberry-pink twinsets, talking in tongues.