Sentence examples for was forestalled at from inspiring English sources

His attempt to stop filibusters on judicial nominations was forestalled at the last minute, but the threat remains.All this has led to extraordinary levels of political discord, to "slash and burn" tactics affecting the institutions of government, and to a defensive zero-sum partisanship (any gain for me must be a loss for you) which is at odds with American optimism and openness.

Johnson intended to translate the Venetian Paolo Sarpi's The History of the Council of Trent but was forestalled by the coincidence of another Johnson at work on the same project.

The attack was forestalled by a German retirement on the night of 10/11 June.

"While it is difficult to determine with precision when the breakpoint will be reached … a major deleveraging must occur at some point — it cannot be forestalled forever," the report says.

Any tendency to laugh at the characters who people "Ecstasy" is forestalled by the ravishing empathy with which Mr. Leigh's pitch-perfect sextet of performers brings them to life.

But he had been "forestalled".

Can a war in Iraq be forestalled by semantics?

When the mainland was weak, the question of reunification or independence could be forestalled.

So, the underground cable option is forestalled and the fronts are hardened in general.

At the same time feeder cell contaminations that might interfere with later stages of stem cell biology as well as analysis and/or applications can be forestalled.

To conclude that insecticide resistance is forestalled by using insecticides to suppress vectors is absurd.