Sentence examples similar to were forestalling from inspiring English sources

In 628 he and his followers tried to make an Islamized hajj but were forestalled by the Meccans.

Plans to demolish the vacant structure and replace it with condominiums were forestalled, allowing the Romneyites to move back in last year.

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.

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.

Widespread suspensions were forestalled through coordinated actions during both the 1884 and the 1890 panics.

"By offering arbitration -- and I have no doubt Mark has good years left -- is forestalling the inevitable".

The current campaign to demonize earnings management seems odd at best, and in some dimensions in claiming to be forestalling the demise of the stock market plain silly.

The ultimate public health challenge with regard to HIV, beyond treating the afflicted, is forestalling its future spread.

Only the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department's investigation of possible violation of the endangered species act is forestalling the tragic event.

It is likely that inactivation of GAPDH after peroxide treatment of yeast cells is forestalling the protective effect of TPI variants exhibiting reduced catalytic activity.

So we are forestalling these fears about Europe losing ground in Mexico against the exporting power of the United States.