Holbrooke must know that there will be no American victory in this war; he can only try to forestall potential disaster.
The appointment was largely symbolic, and Ismay "was at least partly appointed to forestall potential criticism by his friend Winston Churchill".
In order to forestall potential challenges, China's leadership has increasingly muzzled the press, limiting, in particular, reporting or commentary that could adversely affect stock prices or the currency.
It has also highlighted important but modifiable predictors and early markers of childhood immunisation delays in this region that will facilitate improved services for routine BCG immunisation and forestall potential snowballing of delays to subsequent immunisation in early childhood.
The law forbids campaigns from coordinating, to forestall the potential for shell entities and overspending vehicles.
Three days after the attack, President Barack Obama ordered airstrikes on the Islamic State to forestall a potential genocide of fifty thousand Yazidis.
One way to forestall any potential threat is to encourage third-party developers to create more programs that make it easier for buyers and sellers to use eBay.
Patrick McLoughlin, the Conservative chief whip, was said to be ringing round Tory MPs in an attempt to forestall any potential defector.
The report, by the National Academies Institute of Medicinee, answers a question from the National Institutes of Health, which wanted to know what it should do to forestall a potential disaster as more and more men take testosterone without knowing whether it helps or harms.
Instead, Western petroleum executives say they want prices to stay high so they can keep investing in unconventional sources of oil in places like the Arctic or the deep offshore, and to forestall a potential shortfall in supply.
Does Moscow really think that sticking its neck out pre-emptively to forestall any potential future sanctions vote in case of an uprising in Belarus is worth earning the hatred and contempt of the youth of the Muslim world?
