"The fact that the stock market is starting to act a little better might forestall talk of an intermeeting rate cut," said Bill Hornbarger, chief fixed-income strategist at A. G. Edwards in St . Louis
In the final years of the Qing emperors, some thought that turning the last imperial dynasty into a constitutional monarchy might forestall its collapse.
In some cases the motivation behind making demands so onerous that the opponent cannot possibly grant them is clear: the hard-liner wants to provoke an armed conflict which he thinks he can win, and a compromise solution might forestall the war.
Civilisation after civilisation had been brought down by the cupidity and ignorance of kings.It could happen again, too (though Volney, a good revolutionary, thought a General Assembly of the People might forestall or delay it).
Having taken all these circumstances into account, the broadcasters came up with a plan that they thought might forestall the threat from the federal regulators.
It has rejected pleas by Boeing and others to negotiate a deal with the Europeans that might forestall sanctions without ETI repeal.
And if it is passed quickly enough, it might even forestall a recession.
Furthermore, the rescue might not forestall a recession, said G. David MacEwen, chief investment officer for the bond department at American Century Investments.
At at cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, this would be prohibitively expensive for Entergy and might forestall relicensing altogether.
In the Middle East, because we are already deep into the realm of having to contemplate imperfect measures that might forestall disaster, rather than solutions that anybody would find morally satisfying, the American example offers a hope, though a distant one.
