"prevent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- At the time, American law prevented couples from adopting more than two foreign children.
- At the time, federal law prevented any family from adopting more than two foreign-born children.
- Only an absence of funds prevented the Senate from adopting this proposal.
- Only political inertia prevents us from adopting a national health insurance system like every other industrialized country in the world.
- And nothing in the statute prevents the agency from adopting a view of safety that would avoid such harm.
- The agencies also frequently impose financial requirements that prevent low-income families from adopting.
- This will prevent Member States from adopting a vanguard position in the difficult search for solutions.
- This does not however prevent us from adopting it and leaving the Council the option of choosing one or the other.
- He wanted to prevent states from adopting tough new air pollution standards for small engines of the type made by the company.
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