"prevent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Also on display, though, were some of the divisions orchestrated by Mitterrand, who delighted in playing off different factions to prevent potential rivals from challenging him.
- It is important to take out any nuclear installations in the other countries, so as to prevent rivals from gaining nuclear weapons.
- The move prevented rivals from developing an alternative technology and producing lookalikes legally.
- They repeatedly entered into pooling arrangements to prevent competition, bought out competitors, or forced rivals to agree not to compete with them.
- Typically the technology is protected via formal patents or other intellectual property protection mechanism to prevent rivals from copying.
- This prevented rivals from offering the smaller players for months.
- American companies intent on preventing rivals from merging are increasingly complaining to European regulators more than to permissive United States officials.
- Withholding details about the Windows code has prevented rivals from competing on an even basis with Microsoft in server software, the commission ruled.
- Mobutu institutionalized corruption to prevent political rivals from challenging his control, leading to an economic collapse in 1996.
- "Entry barriers" are factors that prevent new rivals from timely responding to an increase in price above the competitive level.
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