Sentence examples for wanted to forestall from inspiring English sources

In a faint echo of Argentina's approach, he said that he wanted to forestall a large current-account deficit.

This was because Scotland was otherwise due an alternative tax rise, which the Tories wanted to forestall; yet there was something about Thatcher's style that enraged the Scots.

Litter, she said, was symbolic of urban breakdown, which she wanted to forestall; but she also wanted to avoid getting a summons from the Sanitation Department.

That information, together with evidence of large undisclosed losses at Merrill, may have led shareholders to reject the merger at a time when the government wanted to forestall a worse meltdown of the financial system.

The palace did not explain why it had reneged on its plan to make both statements simultaneously, but one possibility is that it wanted to forestall potential tabloid efforts to follow the car in a dangerous fashion while trying to photograph the contents of the paper.

That repeal happened because of the Abbott government's deep dive into "truthy" at the expense of facts and reason and science and evidence-based policy, and because carbon-intensive industries that prance about in boom times fancying themselves more powerful than democratically elected governments really wanted to forestall the inevitability of mandated carbon constraint for a few more years.

The Republicans want to forestall any increases at all.

Egyptian news reports said the authorities want to forestall further unrest as the Coptic Christmas approaches on Friday.

Republicans were equally indignant at what they saw as game-playing, saying that they, too, want to forestall the rate increase.

"Chances are that if a bond is getting re-remicked, it's a bad bond and the holder wants to forestall the inevitable reckoning," Mr. Kolchinsky said.

If you want to forestall temptation, try not to look at the pastry case, where the mille-feuilles and éclairs ooze rich custard.