"prevent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Screening can also mean preventing access of something by some sort of barrier:
- Secondary prevention means preventing a disease that a person has already had from coming back.
- But the effort to preserve farms doesn't mean just preventing pretty fields of moo cows from giving way to tract houses.
- By that, he meant preventing outsiders from coming in and driving prices beyond those the residents can afford.
- Paving a way for peace does not only mean preventing armed warfare.
- Now he was back to thinking like a doctor, and that meant preventing bloodshed at any cost.
- "If it means preventing any more of my marines from dying, then just watch me."
- Compliance with the precautionary principle, however, does not mean preventing any technological progress in the field of processing foods.
- Do we believe that prevention means preventing life?
- Does it mean perhaps preventing all citizens from publicly expressing their religion?
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