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Example sentences for: forestall

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The island proved to be the last bastion of the samurai ideal, when disenfranchised warriors launched the doomed Satsuma Rebellion in their desperation to forestall the relentless march of progress.
In Morton's hands, Monica's is the same old tale of female victimization, but--just as she did before the Senate, thereby helping to forestall impeachment--she manages to shift the blame.
Even the moralistic mystic of a grandmother, Lilian (Tovah Feldshuh), can't forestall Pearl's flowering.
An article claims that Clinton "sandbagged" Jesse Jackson in 1995 and 1996 to prevent a primary challenge: The president courted black mayors, refused a budget deal with the Republicans, and steered funding to Jesse Jackson Jr.'s congressional campaign in order to forestall a Jackson Sr. presidential run.
The NYT reports that after meeting in Moscow with Boris Yeltsin, Milosevic, in an attempt to forestall NATO military action against his forces, pledged to provide relief groups and international monitors with access to Albanians in Kosovo province and to make arrangements for Albanian refugees to return there.