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Example sentences for: forestalling

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Nine hours after the NATO deadline for a deal on returning autonomy to the Yugoslavian province had passed, the French foreign minister announced that the deadline had been extended by three days, thus forestalling the airstrikes that NATO had threatened.
Since the Pearl Harbor attack of 1941, the intelligence community has devoted generations of effort to understanding the problem of forestalling a surprise attack.
In the central tourist quarter, an expanding number of buildings are being spruced up with the assistance of UNESCO and foreign foundations, but many others are propped up by wooden columns, lean-tos that appear to be merely forestalling the inevitable.