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But that's no reason to forestall proper care.

Punishing the first defector can be an effective way to forestall that.

Actually we go out of our way to avoid killing stories critical of YC cos, to forestall exactly that complaint.

I'm just hoping to forestall another goofy HN conspiracy theory; the idea that w00w00 is, like, the Internet's "Skull & Bones".

You'll forestall any complaints and questions about whether you're sure it was a black widow and shorten the time to diagnose and begin treatment.

Humor on HN is strongly moderated in an attempt to forestall the degradation of signal/noise ratio that eventually will evolve it into a sea of memes and pun threads.

[1] Attempting to forestall the thread-jacking: I know NoSQL databases have other benefits besides their data model, but for some applications that's certainly one of the benefits.

Sure, that was only a few fringe anarchists who had attached themselves to the ideologically pure movement, but that's little different from the 'few bad apples' excuse that is sometimes advanced to forestall criticism of police misbehavior.

"No means no" as popular phrasing most specifically does refer to unwanted sexual contact, originating specifically in the context of date rape--and no, to forestall the tired MRA argument, male- or female-initiated sexual contact.