Examples of forestalling

• Insulating coatings increase the energy deposition, evidently by forestalling the formation of plasma around a wire.

• Let us transpose this reasoning to forestalling high unemployment.

• Information about these opportunities might be unreliable, scarce, or deliberately withheld as a means of forestalling policy change.

• This would also facilitate the broader objective of forestalling democratic change.

• Regulators and judges administered labor law so as to emphasize stability, forestalling repoliticization of labor-management conflict.

• Rigorous quantification was a concession to politics, or rather a strategy for forestalling it.

• Her own evidence does not suggest that corporatism was simply about preserving hierarchies or forestalling social emancipation.

• Welles too was intent on forestalling a bloodbath which would discredit his mediation.