Sentence examples for or forestalled from inspiring English sources

Behavior can be motivated or forestalled by its resulting consequences, and a reinforcer is one of the many consequences that strengthen a behavior (Ferster and Skinner 1957).

More recently, we have shown that aging-associated declines in motor coordination, grip strength, balance, and agility are delayed, attenuated, and/or prevented in aging GHR-KO mice (Arum et al., 2013) and that aging-associated declines in blood glucose regulatory homeostasis and dynamics are blunted or forestalled in aging GHR-KO mice (Arum et al., 2014).

The fundamental hope is to somehow mitigate or forestall climate change.

In fact, many scientists in the United States remain dubious over claims that humans can increase precipitation or forestall bad weather.

Drug companies already are trying to develop drugs that can build muscles or forestall their weakening without the notoriety of anabolic steroids.

What lawmaker could resist demands to "do everything possible" to act on such intelligence — either to apprehend the guilty or forestall the crime.

From the Balkans to Liberia to Sierra Leone to Kosovo, armed intervention has, on balance, helped to end or forestall catastrophes.

See Eastman Kodak (Section 2 is "directed to discrete situations" in which the behavior of firms with monopoly power "threatens to defeat or forestall the corrective forces of competition").

How would each candidate face the considerable challenges of the Afghanistan transition — like propping up the Afghan security forces, trying to negotiate a settlement with the Taliban, or forestalling a full-scale civil war after American and NATO forces depart?

Put another way, the policy conceit that spending money on patients who die is a waste overlooks the core purpose of health care — to prevent or forestall illness, disability and death among patients at risk of those outcomes.

Most of these deaths resulted from undiscriminating tactics employed by the Taliban (suicide attacks, I.E.D.'s), which could intensify when the Americans remove from Afghanistan the abundance of sophisticated technology and equipment currently used to minimize or forestall such attacks.