Sentence examples for were forestalled as from inspiring English sources

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.

Progress toward the crucial, and readily achievable, goals of public health nutrition has been forestalled- as we have choked for years on distortions, deceptions, predatory profiteering- and just such false equivalence.

Action to prepare for a dual meltdown was not a case of "forewarned is forearmed," he said, but more like "forewarned is forestalled".

"They were as nice as could be.

They were as dumbfounded as I was.

"They were as clean as could be.

Be as matter as fact as possible.

Be as prepared as possible.

I'm as surprised as you are.

I am as incensed as you are".

"I'm as scared as you are".