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forestalled

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of Forestall

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate. Mark Zandi

Alexander the Great ordered it demolished circa 331 BCE in preparation for a reconstruction that his death forestalled. Source: Internet

Any danger that Ambrose might have retired after this series was forestalled when Brian Lara was appointed West Indies captain and immediately spoke to Ambrose and Walsh to ask them to continue in the team. Source: Internet

Fleming, p. 421 In any event he was forestalled in this ambition by Amundsen, who flew over the pole in Umberto Nobile 's airship Norge in May 1926. Source: Internet

Miller (1960) pp. 155–62 Insurgents in western Pennsylvania shut the courts and hounded federal officials, but Jeffersonian leader Albert Gallatin mobilized the western moderates, and thus forestalled a serious outbreak. Source: Internet

Troops executed attacks on terrorists’ hideouts, repelled attacks on own troops’ locations and forestalled attack on Internally Displaced Persons’ convoy. Source: Internet

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