"prevent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It fails to prevent pregnancy at least 10 percent of the time.
- "But we failed to prevent the terrorist act," he said.
- He also failed to prevent a massacre of all the French in the city.
- But in general these steps fail to prevent many small farms from going under.
- The decision, which was largely expected, failed to prevent another increase in oil prices.
- Another question is to what degree the report will single out individuals as failing to prevent the disaster.
- Some say they are angry with themselves for failing to prevent their infection.
- A central purpose of the federal investigations, he said, has been to protect officials who failed to prevent so much death.
- Has the international community failed to prevent the outbreak of violence?
- This approach did not in itself cause the wars of 1956 and 1967, but it clearly failed to prevent them.
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