"prevent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He explains that he wants to ask the Engineers to prevent his death from old age.
- Prosecutors have said they will seek the death sentence in a second trial and opposed the defense motion asking Judge Baxter to prevent it.
- I have come here today to ask you to prevent a gross injustice from being enacted.
- They are asked in order to prevent dumb mistakes later on.
- I simply asked Mycroft to prevent my feet from leaving tracks.
- The banks were asked to prevent lending rising above the level prevailing at the time.
- I would ask you to prevent this in future, otherwise I too would like to speak for another two minutes.
- He had the chaplain write up a special prayer asking the Almighty to prevent the Chinese from doing anything stupid.
- He particularly asked for steps to prevent the use of international banks for moving drug dealers' money across borders.
- The schools are asked to prevent teen-age pregnancies.
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