forestalling's Usage Examples:

These kami are regarded as protecting the boundaries of a village and forestalling entry by malicious or harmful spirits and influences, thereby preventing.

Engrossing, forestalling and regrating were marketing offences in English, Welsh and Irish common law.

cardinals proceeded so swiftly to an election with the intention of forestalling any intervention from Naples.

registered plays through co-operative stationers, with the express purpose of forestalling the publication of a play when publication was not in their interest.

the friendship between a Vietnam veteran and an old man entrusted with forestalling the end of the universe.

from a kneeling position, forestalling a frontal attack.

Commencing from a kneeling position, forestalling an attack from the rear.

for judging of all crimes committed within burgh, and of the crime of forestalling; and was in effect Justice-General over the burghs, and held Chamberlain-ayrs.

penalties against the offences of engrossing (speculative accumulation), forestalling (buying produce before it was offered in market), and regrating (buying.

was one of the pioneers of applying mathematics to economic problems, forestalling the works of Antoine Augustin Cournot, William Stanley Jevons, and others.

anticipation of any evil, but from rapid and unconsidered movements forestalling the action of the rational mind.

was given a seat on the SPÖ as a result of an alliance whose aim was forestalling another term of Wolfgang Schüssel as chancellor.

in no other Irish liberty, including the four royal pleas of arson, forestalling, rape, and treasure trove.

article and personal contacts, he helped achieve a Marin County ordinance forestalling the bulldozing of archaeological sites.

is only slavery and that only if alive when they come; but famine is forestalling slavery, and the partisans are crueler than either.

The primary strategic decision to be decided upon, was whether a forestalling move should be launched on Siam before the Japanese landed.

This was a crime called "forestalling".

The treaty was aimed at forestalling that, but it was rejected by the Mexican congress.

after his overthrow in 602, Maurice was actually well on his way to forestalling the Slavic landfall on the Balkans and nearly preserved the order of.

Venuti sees two main methods of questioning or forestalling these domesticating effects: one is to choose source texts that run counter.

In contrast, the Sabbat actively seeks Noddist lore in hopes of forestalling the return of the Antediluvians, viewing itself as an army set against.

Synonyms:

obviation; bar; preclusion; prevention;

Antonyms:

unbar; allow; permit; free; proliferation;