Sentence examples for purpose to forestall from inspiring English sources

They came to believe that the 2005 power-plant rule that did make significant pollution cuts served another purpose: to forestall any additional cleanup requirements as long as Mr. Bush was in office.

The bleak purpose was to forestall the looming horror of a helpless brother with no one to care for him.

Massive anti-science public relations campaigns whose sole purpose is to forestall or reverse evidence-based legislation their funders don't like have the side effect of undermining the public requirement that politicians stick to the facts.

These concerns were addressed during the design stage to forestall any unexpected events.

Its primary purpose, according to regulators, was to forestall a toppling of financial dominoes on Wall Street, in the event that Bear Stearns skidded into bankruptcy and other firms began falling apart as well.

Originally, his purpose was to quash British and French attempts to forestall the U.S. annexation of Texas, but he later joined Commodore Robert F. Stockton in lobbying leaders of the Republic of Texas to order their military forces across the Rio Grande into Mexico.

The primary purpose of the bill, supported by both parties, was to forestall a 10.6percentt cut in payments to doctors that would otherwise be mandated under a longstanding funding formula.

The M.A.I. plans to send equipment, not money, to NVN to forestall the possibility that the money might not be used for its designated purpose.

This comparison, although speculative, helps to forestall possible objections to the pre-post design used here.

To forestall such failures banks maintain equity.

Also, it did nothing to forestall foreclosures.