| I opened my mouth to argue with him, although he was right, but Timur's next words forestalled me. |
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| He'd opened his mouth to snap back a reply when he was forestalled by a resounding yelp from the creature. |
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| The arrival of a police car would have forestalled or deterred such an attack by itself. |
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| Immediately after winning the battle, he resumed the policies that had forestalled military success. |
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| Once more, quick and clear communication forestalled irritation and resentment. |
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| An accurate prediction, even though actual debate was forestalled by a campaign of misinformation and intimidation. |
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| His attempt to take power by force was forestalled by a West African peacekeeping force financed largely by Nigeria. |
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| She touched his tears with a hand that trembled, but when she tried to speak, he forestalled her, touching his fingers to her lips. |
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| The International Law Commission prepared several draft statutes for an ICC but differences of opinions forestalled further developments. |
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| For example, market failures have forestalled the creation of a private housing market on First Nation lands. |
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| Three days before the summit, the police said they had forestalled a planned attack by ETA, the Basque separatist group. |
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| For decades, the Soviet Union's nuclear force forestalled the imperialists from unleashing their deadly nukes. |
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| It 3 lasted far longer than the economic events that spawned the initial collapse and forestalled the recovery. |
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| They had designedly forestalled Ross in his chosen field between the 120th and 150th meridians east. |
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| China's massive stimulus programme may have forestalled disaster in the migrant-labour force. |
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| Although there was a lead agency for education, lack of cooperation had forestalled significant progress. |
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| The investigations have forestalled improper disbursements of large sums of money and have also led to the recovery of considerable sums. |
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| By doing so, he has probably forestalled Republican proposals to use the surplus for tax cuts. |
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| He seemed about to speak, but Rowena forestalled him with a kiss. |
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| Quebec's perennial threat of separation from Canada has only been forestalled by massive devolution of governing powers from Ottawa to Quebec City. |
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| Jenica turned, eyes blazing, to Brian, but he forestalled her. |
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| So what I hope out of this will come, further cooperation and more affective cooperation than we saw in evidence, that might have forestalled the incident today. |
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| A visit to Mogadishu was again forestalled this year owing to security considerations, and a visit to the southern regions of Somalia was also not possible for this same reason. |
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| While the response has openly acknowledged that Russia and China would have vetoed and therefore forestalled unacceptably a UN military action, we must consider the ramifications of the alternate route we have employed. |
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| In some sites, the possibility of cross-examining the victim on the victim impact statement at trial is forestalled because the Crown Attorney, court, and defence counsel only receive the statement after a finding of guilt. |
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| An outcry arose in consequence, which inevitably would have led to reprisals and bloodshed had not the Government stepped in and forestalled further trouble by a prompt recognition of the natives' title. |
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| This has not forestalled a certain degree of anglophobia. |
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| Seavey's hat covered a hint of cauliflower on the top half of his left ear, a battle scar from an amateur wrestling career that nearly forestalled his emergence as a mushing prodigy — the youngest-ever Iditarod champion. |
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| Eventually, it will be advisable and necessary to speak out, but that day can be forestalled by decades if we adopt a policy of not randomly giving interviews and news stories. |
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| Sacred worship forestalled any destruction or misuse. |
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| Whether this was the intent of such a process, controversy was largely forestalled, with the exception of the eventual decision to place Hezbollah on the list. |
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| As I see it, Commissioner, the timing of the Green Paper is very unfortunate, as the results of the current multilateral negotiations on trade defence instruments should not be forestalled. |
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| Committing to build a railway across 3 000 miles which had not even been surveyed may have been madness, but it was a national project which galvanized the nation and forestalled the Americans. |
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| The passage of the budget in November averted an imminent crisis in Government spending and forestalled disruption to donor supported development programmes. |
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| This is regrettable, for this could have even forestalled the war. |
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| The possible question as to 'who is an operator' should be forestalled. |
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| The wildfires in Australia were largely caused by the large supply of natural fuel that had not been burned off in previous fires due to the fact that fires had been forestalled. |
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| Armed conflicts, with their trail of exactions against civilian populations and the streams of refugees who take to the roads and the seas, have to be halted, or better still, forestalled by preventive action. |
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| Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. |
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| Planned risings in Wales, Devon and Cornwall were forestalled by the government arresting the local Jacobites. |
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| On 22 June, when the government intended to progress a bill on Irish tithes, Ashley forestalled them, moving the second reading of the factory bill. |
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| The Trent and Mersey link gave the Duke access to the Midlands, and forestalled the Weaver Trustees from making their own junction with the canal. |
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| He forestalled critics by offering a defense of the project. |
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