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Перевод: forestall

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предупреждать; предупредить; предвосхищать; предвосхитить; опережать; забегать вперед; упреждать

Тезаурус:

1. And they are responsive to change, and so forestall the inflexibility of "historical" allocations.
2. Bevin agreed with Attlee about the need to forestall the Russians, and took the initiative in drafting a resolution for the General Assembly authorizing the crossing of the 38th parallel with a view to establishing a unified, independent, and democratic government of all Korea.
3. The British attempted on occasion to forestall this, provoking considerable anger in Washington.
4. To forestall any immediate and hasty rejection of the foregoing method of assessment of the value of human virtue by the reader, he is reminded that there is at present no rational way in which this can be done.
5. Once problems have actually arisen help of various kinds may supply a remedy or at least forestall something worse.
6. The German explanation for the invasion of Belgium and Holland on 10 May 1940 - that it had been necessary in order to forestall a breach of neutrality by the enemy - carried less conviction than it had done in the Scandinavian operation.This was in itself, however, of little significance in an atmosphere impregnated with tension, and anxiety that the western offensive could not conceivably go as smoothly as the Polish and Scandinavian campaigns.
7. It seems likely that when he received these papers, Palmerston, to forestall those critics who said that he was out of touch with current architectural ideas, instructed Donaldson to arrange for him to meet Lamb and other architects who agreed with his views.
8. To forestall his next movement (such as his taking her in his arms) Franca moved rapidly round the table, took a firm hold of his shoulder, and, as he instinctively lowered his head, kissed his hot blushing cheek.
9. But also, in this reductio ad absurdum of masculine sexuality, men become redundant as the women threaten to perform phallic violence on themselves in the attempt to forestall male violence (Genevora to the duellists): "The first blow given betwixt you, sheathes these swords/In one anothers bosomes" (177 - 8).
10. An accurate account would have to have regard to all those instances where a remedy has been accorded by a state party simply to forestall a successful application and to those cases, also, where breach had been avoided in the first place by reason of adjustment of procedures so as to ensure compliance with the Convention.
11. FARMERS on Tealham and Tadham moors on the Somerset Levels are rushing to drain their land in order to forestall a plan by the Nature Conservancy Council to declare the area a Site of Special Scientific Interest for its rare combination of waterfowl, meadow plants and aquatic flora and fauna, Tom King, secretary of state for the environment, has already granted the council's request for an emergency order to stop deep drains being installed on 30 hectares belonging to one farmer.
12. My respected landladies, who are the double-distilled quintessence of considerateness and island hospitality, would think all good would leave their abodes if a dweller beneath their roof left fasting, so, in spite of all my entreaties to the contrary, a cup of tea was prepared to forestall my start; and as I walked by the river-side and reached a road that skirts a number of very massive peat-stacks, and displays on the landward side an interminable host of peat-pits, the geniality of the sunshine was felt, and I would gladly have slackened my pace were it not that by so doing my good friends at Gress (some eight miles from Stornoway, where I was due at eight o'clock, if I remember rightly), might have waited breakfast for me.
13. AS Israeli leaders met to discuss the latest Middle East peace moves, nearly a million Palestinians were placed under curfew in the occupied territories to forestall trouble during today's second anniversary of the intifada.