Sentence examples for try and forestall from inspiring English sources

In Terry Gilliam's hands, it became a highly wrought dystopian time-travel thriller, with Bruce Willis, below, as a convict sent back to the 1990s to try and forestall a planet-wide bioterror attack.

His job as a special agent is to zoom back in time to try and forestall a serial killer dubbed the "Fizzle Bomber" (due to the slow-action fuse of his explosive devices) at various stages of his long, notorious career.

So over the summer, Supervisor Mark Farrell, a moderate, led a second pass at the short-term rental regulation to try and forestall a ballot initiative with Mayor Ed Lee's support.

How odd to put blush on a carcass and try to forestall its decomposition because it might seem slightly less dead that way.

The United States and Europe — with tenuous Russian and Chinese support — have isolated Iran economically and diplomatically to try to forestall Tehran from being able to build a nuclear weapon.

Even if the two sides sit down, American officials worry that Iran could prolong the negotiations to try to forestall military action and enable it to complete critical elements of its nuclear program, particularly at underground sites.

The tenants there tried and failed to forestall its sale and acquire the property themselves when the owner, Duane Street Associates, put it on the market about a year ago.

In 1985, Dominique de Menil called on Ashton Hawkins and Lois de Menil to take over and reorganize the Dia Art Foundation to try to forestall its impending bankruptcy as well as a significant investigation by the New York State attorney general.

The measures were meant to try to forestall a threatened Turkish retaliatory strike, which Iraqi and American diplomats fear would further inflame Iraq.

His plan will respect any spending limits that result from a successful Doha round; it will try to forestall legal challenges at the World Trade Organisation; and it will divert some money to things like research and conservation that do not greatly distort trade.All this makes a Doha compromise more likely.

Washington could try to forestall North Korean retaliation for U.S. military strikes and mitigate the damage from any attack, but the risks of full-scale war, with South Korea the battlefield, are huge.