Examples of forestalled

• On the other hand, it is not an allowing death simpliciter insofar as death cannot be prevented, but only can be forestalled, put off, postponed.

• Although population pressure, immigration and trade disrupted all the frontier regions, intelligent local policies could have prevented friction and forestalled revolt.

• Political innovation that is not legitimized through a change of public sentiment is, on the other hand, likely to be forestalled.

• Thus, signing a preferential arrangement is forestalled by a heightened number of veto players.

• It seemed that, by this means, a potentially damaging quarrel with the king over the privileges of members of the lower house had been forestalled.

• However, the generalization of this effect throughout the child's phonology is apparently forestalled by some pressure to retain the overall quantity of target forms.

• A couple of misunderstandings should be forestalled.

• Rosen claims that the problem is forestalled because classical theory regards individuals as free to 'choose which pleasures to value most and which pains to avoid'.

• He either followed or forestalled all the arguments that could be advanced in favour of a special concession in this case.

• This was done because we had reason to believe that we might be forestalled by certain foreign interests.

• Now it is suggested again that expenditure on industrial capital equipment should be forestalled further.

• Why was the possibility of our being forestalled never considered and provision made for it?

• Indeed, we have rather allowed ourselves to be forestalled and it will mean a strenuous effort if we are to keep up with our competitors.

• None the less, some later difficulties could be forestalled by the earlier application of some such precautions.

• If that was his intention, we forestalled it.