| 词汇 | forestalling |
| 释义 | forestalling present participle offorestall forestall verb[ T ] uk /fɔːˈstɔːl/ us /fɔːrˈstɑːl/ to prevent something from happening by acting first: 预先阻止；先发制人 The company executives forestalled criticism by inviting union leaders to meet.公司管理层邀请工会领袖见面，以避免遭受批评。 Preventing and impeding anti-drug anti-jamming avoid avoidable avoidably bottleneck derail fireproof guard against something hamper hang have someone/something hanging round your neckidiom head off preclusive prejudice prevent preventable preventative scuttle smother Examples of forestallingforestalling In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Insulating coatings increase the energy deposition, evidently by forestalling the formation of plasma around a wire. Let us transpose this reasoning to forestalling high unemployment. Information about these opportunities might be unreliable, scarce, or deliberately withheld as a means of forestalling policy change. This would also facilitate the broader objective of forestalling democratic change. Regulators and judges administered labor law so as to emphasize stability, forestalling repoliticization of labor-management conflict. Rigorous quantification was a concession to politics, or rather a strategy for forestalling it. Her own evidence does not suggest that corporatism was simply about preserving hierarchies or forestalling social emancipation. Welles too was intent on forestalling a bloodbath which would discredit his mediation. Through the use of insulating coatings on the wires, it is possible to increase the energy deposition in low-current experiments by forestalling the development of plasma along the wire. Hay's hugely erudite article, meanwhile, examines common law cases around 1800 in which merchants were found guilty of forestalling and regrading goods. Simply fiddling around with the forestalling problem will do nothing to stop the underlying illegality and smuggling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We will make an accommodation here, and a compromise there, and a forestalling action somewhere else. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There would be the same element of forestalling in that case as in any other case. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Factors may have been overlooked such as the effect of forestalling in bringing forward investment in 1985 as well as in 1984. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If they are engaged in forestalling or mitigating attacks by the enemy, they will be included. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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