Meanings of forestall such in English

Perhaps it will reach them in time to forestall such beams.

To-night, they were determined to forestall such a calamity.

Can't you see that I would make any sacrifice to forestall such a dreadful chance?

A compendium of accumulated lore, posted periodically to high-volume newsgroups in an attempt to forestall such questions.

Koppy, whose duty it was to forestall such conflicts, was nowhere in sight; and anyway Conrad had learned not to trust the Pole.

Their leaders will largely deny this last statement, but an examination of their utterances, their actions, and the situation will forestall such denial.

To forestall such objections, people have tried to limit the power of the élite by devising impersonal machinery of government such as laws, constitutions, principles.