Political economy has taught us that those old bugbears of the statute law called forestallers and regraters are eminent benefactors, in as far as their mercenary instincts enable them to see scarcity from afar, and induce them to "hold on" precisely so long as it lasts but no longer, since, if they have stock remaining on hand when abundance returns, they will be losers. ❋ John Hill Burton (N/A)
Some days after the riot the Lord Mayor issued a proclamation giving permission to "foreign bakers and others" to bake bread in Dublin; he also sent to all the churchwardens of the city to furnish him with information of any persons who had concealed corn on their premises; he denounced "forestallers," who met in the suburbs the people coming in with provisions, in order to buy them up before they reached the market; thus in a great measure justifying the rioters who were whipped and transported. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
We have turned out against the enemy and we will not be eaten up by the monopolizers and forestallers. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)
The millions of dollars spent by Congress in support of the army had spawned a whole new class of businessmen, a hustling array of “merchants, monopolizers, farmers, sharpers, forestallers, mushroom traders” as one wry patriot put it, “outdoing one another” in a manner bewildering to those who yearned for the staid pace of prewar life. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)
“The public wealth is plundered by defaulters, and the whole country imposed on by forestallers and monopolizers.” ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)
Similar accusations against “forestallers” and monopolizers would reverberate for the duration of the war. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)
Certainly no, unless some measures can be devised and speedily executed to restore the credit of our currency, restrain extortion, and punish forestallers. ❋ Benson Bobrick (1997)
In one of the most vehement letters he ever wrote, Washington gave vent to his hatred of big-time war profiteers—the monopolizers, forestallers, and engrossers of condign punishment. . . ❋ Benson Bobrick (1997)
It would have kept the retailers and forestallers in order, and prevented them from availing themselves of the Famine to obtain undue prices. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
They seem to me to do what the forestallers do: in order that they may appreciate the deposits as soon as possible, on this account they have the first pick by one day. ❋ 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes (N/A)
A cry was raised that the price of corn and bread was being enhanced by the action of forestallers, and the lord mayor was instructed by letter from Sunderland ❋ Unknown (N/A)
(3 Oct., 1709) to put the law in force against all engrossers, forestallers and regraters of corn. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Commons, is in favour of the old division of classes, of the continuance of bondage, and of the regulation of wages by the State; he feels nothing but hatred for Lombard and Jew bankers, for royal purveyors, and forestallers. ❋ Jean Jules Jusserand (N/A)
The laws against forestallers and engrossers, who, it was currently believed, were leagued against both army and country, were powerless, as such laws always are. ❋ Various (N/A)
I wonder if [the writer] of that [railroad] rule book could [forestall] me from shoving my boot in his ass. ❋ Anglo Gerry (2013)
Companies have been forestalled by [the length] of time the [Microsoft Windows] software take the whole IT market during [1990's]. ❋ Purinsy (2008)
