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Example sentences for: forestall

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Even the moralistic mystic of a grandmother, Lilian (Tovah Feldshuh), can't forestall Pearl's flowering.
Some years elapsed before the British decided to establish a penal settlement in the land which Cook, when he took possession of it in 1770, primarily to forestall the French, named New South Wales.
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.
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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.