"prevent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They vanished from the Thames because up to 1970 pollution in the lower reaches prevented migration.
- In some cases, there can be an impermeable substance smeared along the fault line (such as clay) that also acts to prevent migration.
- In 2003, a groundwater treatment system was voluntarily installed to prevent possible offsite migration of contaminants.
- All oil fields have a geological barrier preventing upward migration of oil.
- This was heavily managed, with birds taken into captivity after the breeding season to prevent migration.
- Following the end of the breeding season, the birds are taken into cages in late July or early August to prevent migration.
- It seems likely that the Settlement Laws were not so much preventing migration as inhibiting distance.
- Several of these countries established strict visa requirements to prevent further migration.
- We will also need further action on preventing illegal migration, combating the ruthless business of human trafficking and protecting our common external borders.
- That is the strength of exchange rates: they can prevent unemployment and migration by cutting their coat according to their cloth.
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