Sentence examples for were forestalled from inspiring English sources
verb
To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
- Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action.
In 628 he and his followers tried to make an Islamized hajj but were forestalled by the Meccans.
Boniface's plans to issue a personal sentence of excommunication against Philip were forestalled when Nogaret appeared in Anagni and seized Boniface on Sept. 7, 1303.
Plans to demolish the vacant structure and replace it with condominiums were forestalled, allowing the Romneyites to move back in last year.
Shell's attempts to drill for oil in the Chukchi Sea this August were forestalled by ice floes which, though small by the scale of continents, were pretty large by the standards of human engineering.
Their preparations for a blow at East Prussia's southern frontier were forestalled, as Ludendorff, striking suddenly eastward from East Prussia, enveloped four Russian divisions in the Augustów forests, east of the Masurian Lakes, in the second week of February; but in Galicia the winter's fighting culminated, on March 22, in the fall of Przemyśl to the Russians.
Widespread suspensions were forestalled through coordinated actions during both the 1884 and the 1890 panics.
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.
Although Rhodes's agents secured some new territories for the company, elsewhere he was forestalled.
Her death that day was forestalled by heroic measures, including a tracheotomy and ventilation.
