"prevent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Some lawmakers said this and other disputes could prevent Congress from passing the spending bill before the break.
- Nor, they point out, would there be anything to prevent Congress from passing a law requiring the use of such systems.
- The commission's list had to be accepted or rejected as a whole, to prevent Congress from picking and choosing.
- But the fact that this is an election year should not prevent Congress from acting, he said.
- Republicans are also looking for guarantees that would prevent Congress from cutting the military budget further next year.
- In short, the bill would prevent Congress from doing what it is elected to do: make choices.
- An estoppel would prevent Congress from passing one law that was contrary to its earlier position.
- Those laws prevent Congress from passing bills that add to the deficit.
- What would prevent Congress from regulating any activity that might bear on a person's economic productivity?
- Committee members contended that officials tried to prevent Congress from finding out.
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