Sentence examples similar to to forestall delay from inspiring English sources

Soviet officials tried to forestall his appointment by delaying their approval when Mr. Toon was appointed by President Ford shortly before the 1976 election.

He has an increased operative risk due to multiple injuries but requires surgery more than others to forestall problems related to delayed burns excision.

And in the past week, we've seen a new American import: for the first time ever in Dutch parliamentary procedure, Mr Wilders and the far-left Socialist Party are scheduling endless parliamentary debates and other delaying tactics to forestall the passage of laws they know a majority of parliament supports.

Often their elaborate performances are parcelled out in clear-cut divisions, usually called fits or cantos, in order to forestall tedium and build up suspense by delays and piecemeal revelations.

But Deinocrates, who feared that delay was the one thing most likely to save Philopoemen, and wished to forestall the efforts of the Achaeans, when night came on and the multitude of Messene had dispersed, opened the prison and sent in a public official with poison, ordering him to give it to Philopoemen and to stand by his side until he had drunk it.

Charles delayed the opening of his first Parliament until after the second ceremony, to forestall any opposition.

Carte and his partners hoped to forestall further "piracy" by establishing the authorised production and tours in America before others could copy it and by delaying publication of the score and libretto.

Second, to forestall further chaos.

To forestall such failures banks maintain equity.

Also, it did nothing to forestall foreclosures.

Or to forestall that change all together?