Similar words: forestall, stalling, installing, crystalline structure, crystalline, forestation, crystallinity, reforestation. Meaning: n. the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively.
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1. He forestalled all his competitors.
2. They forestalled any attempt to steal the jewels by having them moved to a safer place.
3. We must act now to forestall disaster.
4. She forestalled my plan to meet her.
5. She forestalled their attempt.
6. Large numbers of police were in the square to forestall any demonstrations.
7. By settling the deal by telephone, Mr. Field had forestalled all his competitors.
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8. I had my objection all prepared, but Stephens forestalled me.
9. Try to anticipate what your child will do and forestall problems.
10. Any plans for a peaceful settlement were forestalled by the intervention of the army.
11. The government forestalled criticism by holding a public enquiry into the matter.
12. The Doctor's reply was forestalled by Klift.
13. The National Guard was sent in, to forestall any trouble.
14. But first, a brief general comment about space and time in order to forestall a possible misunderstanding.
15. Almost certainly the timing would be calculated to forestall possible discovery and defusing by a Nuclear Emergency Search Team.
16. Once problems have actually arisen help of various kinds may supply a remedy or at least forestall something worse.
17. The legislation is now likely to prove the basis for implementing the referendum it failed to forestall.
18. Prior's Trade Union Act of 1980 was a moderate measure intended to forestall further attacks on union power.
19. Cardinal Agagianian brought the debate to a sudden close on 30 October to forestall further public discussion outside the Council.
20. Any plans they may have had, however, were forestalled by Gloucester's seizure of the prince at Stony Stratford.
21. Deliver him to us, forestalling action.
22. This was aimed at forestalling pressure for a rate rise, which Beijing feared could trigger a slump by depressing demand for manufactured products in almost ubiquitous oversupply.
23. Death's single privacy, The only one forestalling mine, And that by right that he Presents a claim invisible, No wedlock granted me.
24. Quite simply, he placed a higher priority on removing the existing regime than on forestalling a military intervention.
25. A new government attempt to prop up that market, either with easy credit or forestalling foreclosures for months, will only re-create the same inflating conditions.
26. Without rules, the international monetary and financial system is incapable of forestalling crises, financial bubbles and the widening of imbalances.
27. Yet, lenders have been keeping that shoe in the closet -- forestalling foreclosures by extending loans, despite rapidly rising mortgage default rates.
28. When business in the United States underwent a mild contraction in 1927, the Federal Reserve created more paper reserves in the hope of forestalling any possible bank reserve shortage.
29. Oil optimists say that new techniques of discovery and retrieval will keep production high for many years to come, thus forestalling an early peak in production.
30. His plan calls for identifying all the components that cause human tissue to age, and designing remedies for each of them — forestalling disease and eventually pushing back death.
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