Various measures, including poll taxes, literacy tests, and organized violence, were used to prevent African Americans from realizing their right to vote.

But nothing in the decision prevents affluent Americans from voluntarily paying for clinics that provide abortion referrals or even perform abortions.

The third largest item ($69.8 billion) prevented middle-income Americans from having to pay alternative minimum taxes.

But the peasant leaders said they intended to continue efforts to prevent Americans from participating in narcotics control operations.

It prevents Americans from getting an unmuddied vision of what some countries are doing for us, and others to us.

Nobody wants to prevent Americans from getting richer.

The top job while fielding calls at the emergency command center was to prevent Americans from panicking.

American regulations prevent Americans from investing until the stock has been trading for 90 days.

The steadfast public opinion of white superiority prevented Mexican Americans from being treated as equals.

This prevented African Americans from having a meaningful vote in the election.