"prevent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "Stronger board oversight may have been able to prevent the kind of abuses that went on at Tyco," he said.
- A transit police videotape is aimed at preventing the kind of shooting that occurred.
- But both also say it's time to start looking in another direction to prevent the kind of family get-together they had last May 24.
- Nothing is enough, apparently, to prevent the kind of loneliness we have taught ourselves to feel.
- Among his first acts were reforms to prevent the kind of corruption that had previously plagued the agency.
- "Just to prevent the wrong kind of guy from getting to run one of our companies someday," he said.
- They include changing a valve to prevent the kind of jam that the board said occurred in Pittsburgh.
- But this change will prevent the kind of problems we just had; it makes the market cleaner.
- The church was simply trying to prevent the kind of social disorder that had led to school shootings and rampant teenage pregnancy, he said.
- Let's make sure that we have safeguards in place to prevent the kind of scenarios that I talked about.
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