"prevent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Safeguards are often instituted to prevent players from placing exorbitant bets such as "one hundred on hearts."
- The city cannot legally take over the land because cemeteries are tax-exempt, preventing the authorities from placing a lien on the property.
- Mabee had a career-best free skate, but his imperfect short program prevented him from placing higher.
- This safety feature prevented workers from inadvertently placing an idle hand or arm inside the presses when they were in operation.
- Moreover, bankers here say, there is nothing to prevent Japanese companies from placing more speculative orders through overseas branches or dealers.
- The First Law demands that I prevent you from placing yourself in such great danger!?
- In 1985 he sponsored a successful bill that prevented the Department of Social Services from placing foster children with homosexual couples.
- Kyle eventually turns on No. 9, preventing him from placing Eve into the cocoon.
- Some market professionals dismissed the collar concept, saying that preventing index arbitragers from placing orders through the computer system did nothing to slow their activity.
- They are seeking to prevent Massachusetts from placing mentally ill inmates in such segregated cells.
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