forestall

Example Sentences

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Our family had long used the “eldest daughter” inheritance trope to forestall bad feelings.

From MarketWatch

A democratic restoration cannot restore Athens’s squandered power or forestall its eventual surrender.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Fed will evaluate whether “higher levels of capital and liquidity would have forestalled the bank’s failure or provided further resilience to the bank,” Barr said.

From Seattle Times

In his letter, commissioner Morath praised the district’s recent accomplishments, but said they were insufficient to forestall a takeover.

From Washington Post

The bank had turned to the Fed to borrow money through the central bank’s “discount window” that day, but it soon became clear that was not going to be enough to forestall a collapse.

From New York Times