Sentence examples for thus forestalling from inspiring English sources

The platform, which belongs to a Houston-based company, Black Elk Energy, was shut and not producing, thus forestalling the possibility of a significant spill, said Capt.

They safeguard the legal security of transactions, monitor legality and serve the public interest but also balance private interests in the property, thus forestalling the development of disputes and litigation.

Although, in these days of allergies and picky eating, I wouldn't advise ordering ahead, a seemly modern solution is to slip off near the end of the meal as if to the loo, and settle up discreetly while you're away from the table, thus forestalling any protest.

The Internal Revenue Service can delay changing withholding tables for average wage earners if it chooses, on the assumption that their tax cuts will be preserved under any possible compromise, thus forestalling any impact from the fiscal cliff on the vast majority of Americans.

Further lapses into insanity occurred in 1801 and 1804, thus forestalling talk of marriage for his daughters.

Although the Nebel stream lay between Fugger's and Marsin's squadrons, the French were forced to change front to meet this new threat, thus forestalling the chance for Marsin to strike at Marlborough's infantry.

The fear of death is thus forestalled.

Disrupting it thus forestalled the risk of creating anything nasty.The team placed orders for the cassettes with three firms that turn such things out routinely.

But the trick will be to guide development along lines that preserve the region's biological diversity and its sponge-like ability to absorb carbon dioxide and thus forestall global warming.

The military is called in to contain the disaster, and a team of high-status scientific researchers is assembled to determine the capacities of whatever is causing this plague and thus forestall the end of civilization.

By selling a factory or a few airport gates, altering distribution arrangements, or agreeing to license a technology, merger partners can often make it feasible for others to enter the market and thus forestall worries about potential anti-competitive behaviour.