Sentence examples for that forestall from inspiring English sources

And, according to some estimates, thousands of American adolescents are taking hormones that forestall puberty until they decide whether they want medical or surgical interventions to change their biological sex.

The wood slatted front promises privacy, with peepholes that forestall claustrophobia; Edison light bulbs, encased in soccer-ball-size globes, dangle over the bar; candles inset into nooks provide a waterfall of flickering light.

So we go for second best and grab for quick fixes that forestall our loftier goals, creating a vicious cycle in which food becomes the soother and reward -- an addiction.

Most nonliterate societies have institutions that forestall blood feud or bring it to a close.

— Poetry Foundation Linens By Kay Ryan There are charms that forestall harm.

If forced to, private companies will compete, but they much prefer to spend tens of millions of dollars buying the votes of state legislators to enact laws that forestall competition rather than spend hundreds of millions to improve their networks.

That forestalls the rip in the space/time continuum problem.

Regulators need to create a system and culture that forestalls it.

He also introduced a vicious rhetoric into German politics that forestalled a sense of common destiny.

But it is this sense of inertia, observation dominating plot, that forestalls wholesale raving.

The IMF stepped in, offering a US$7.6bn emergency financing package in late 2008 that forestalled an economic meltdown.