Sentence examples for was to forestall from inspiring English sources

In the case of the Pilobolus program notes, the intention was to forestall misinterpretation.

The idea was to forestall any fight with the Landmarks Preservation Commission over covering up the Spence annex.

The bleak purpose was to forestall the looming horror of a helpless brother with no one to care for him.

It was to forestall just such a default showdown that the framers of the monetary union did not even design a process by which one of the countries using the euro could withdraw from the union.

He used his power to maintain the supremacy of the Whig Party, as he understood it, and his prime concern was to forestall the machinations of the Jacobites, which he took very seriously, by securing the Hanoverian succession.

Their immediate cause was to forestall a projected dig for the world's largest hydroelectric power plant, which would have forever changed the dramatic face of Storm King Mountain, looming above the Hudson in Orange County.

It is certainly possible to believe otherwise, but the achievement of this film is to forestall and complicate easy judgment.

One concern is to forestall the job losses that are, in practice, essential if any merger is to succeed.

If this were a Hollywood movie, of course, his goal might be to forestall the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, which thankfully are never mentioned.

The immediate goal is to forestall the rapacious fishing fleets of Japan and China, for which the Arctic is an all too tempting target.

The administration's rationale, at odds with the war it is steadily expanding, is to forestall an endless conflict foisted upon it by a bloodthirsty legislature.