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  • "He would prevent you from taking it out," said Hortensia.†   (source)
  • And since my eyes were looking down, I can see that while our muscles are immobile, nothing is preventing the blood from draining out of Peeta's leg.†   (source)
  • Most kids born with these types of birth defects have problems with their middle ears that prevent them from hearing, but so far August can hear well enough through his tiny cauliflower-shaped ears.†   (source)
  • I thought maybe it was how orchestrated the whole thing had been: Augustus was amazing, but he'd overdone everything at the picnic, right down to the sandwiches that were metaphorically resonant but tasted terrible and the memorized soliloquy that prevented conversation.†   (source)
  • We shall all miss your—er—highly individual way of running things, Albus, and only hope that your successor will manage to prevent any—ah—'killin's'.†   (source)
  • The headmaster's tie turns into a noose again, preventing blood from getting to his face.†   (source)
  • To prevent burglars and vandals from breaking in, we'd hang laundry on the clothesline and put dirty dishes in the sink.†   (source)
  • It creates a massive vapor lock, as it were, in mammalian fuel lines: The body is prevented from turning what it eats into a source of usable energy.†   (source)
  • The POW officers met to discuss it, but couldn't come up with any way to prevent it or defend themselves.†   (source)
  • At times I could not prevent myself from lying flat on the ground, pretending I was inside one of those beehive tombs.†   (source)
  • The girl boldly seized the other side of his lunch tray, to prevent him from leaving.†   (source)
  • Tonight Sam Westing would wreak his revenge unless she could prevent it.†   (source)
  • No more windows have been broken, though there has been an incident involving a pair of scissors; however, we will do our utmost to prevent a recurrence.†   (source)
  • At the top was an unlit plywood vestibule with a door that prevented winter drafts from rushing down.†   (source)
  • But it was hard getting used to his new, erect posture, which prevented him from slumping on the sofa with the rest of us.†   (source)
  • He tried to get the two to stop, but the swinging blades whistling through the air prevented him from getting close.†   (source)
  • His mother had all the time in the world, but she couldn't keep a close enough watch on her child to prevent him from straying into the homes of strangers.†   (source)
  • Lale prided himself on his appearance, and his living situation did not prevent him from looking his best.†   (source)
  • He had to do something if they were going to prevent the business from going under in the next six months.†   (source)
  • We can't undo what happened at Columbine, but I am certain that we can prevent similar tragedies from happening again.†   (source)
  • And remember, you may be about to prevent the biggest war in human history.†   (source)
  • My mother hoped her gift would prevent other families from having to go through what we'd suffered.†   (source)
  • The net and the solar stills, which I had not entirely deflated, had filled the empty space and prevented the bags from moving too much.†   (source)
  • They seemed particularly concerned, for religious reasons, with preventing the state from performing an autopsy on their son's body.†   (source)
  • They were there, or would be there, because of the simple, mundane things Eddie had done in his life, the accidents he had prevented, the rides he had kept safe, the unnoticed turns he had affected every day.†   (source)
  • I realized as I continued that I had assumed his wheelchair would be a barrier; that his disability would prevent any kind of sensual aspect from creeping in.†   (source)
  • Mariam would sleep poorly, fretting that some business entanglement would prevent Jalil from coming on Thursday, that she would have to wait a whole other week to see him.†   (source)
  • Philadelphians were desperate for anything to prevent or cure yellow fever.†   (source)
  • The Teacher was grateful he had taken so much care in preventing any ties between Rémy's activities and his own.†   (source)
  • Like a shower's going to prevent imminent starvation.†   (source)
  • But there wasn't a shred of self-control left in him; he couldn't have prevented the tears, he knew that.†   (source)
  • I'm glad that we stayed, though, because I think our presence prevented a pretty violent fight between Craig and Peter.†   (source)
  • The State paraded before you witness after witness who, by their own admission, testified either to get out of jail or to prevent themselves from going to jail, or, in the case of Mr. Zinzi, to prevent himself from being sexually molested.†   (source)
  • Without the hogs to tend to, he could easily have been there even more than usual, preventing Luke from ever sneaking out.†   (source)
  • As if his materialization is preventing her from keeping certain shadows at bay.†   (source)
  • Their incentive was not heaps of money, but preventing Count Olaf from doing something horrible to them in order to get heaps of money.†   (source)
  • The crib had high, slatted sides to prevent the child from getting out.†   (source)
  • I had the sudden urge to hug Gordy, and he had the sudden urge to prevent me from hugging him.†   (source)
  • There are four different safety interlocks that prevent the regulator from letting the Hab's oxygen content get too low.†   (source)
  • But the committee had no power to prevent demolition of houses, or even to gain a stay of execution.†   (source)
  • She persisted in the pretense that her shy demeanor in the presence of boys prevented her from dating them.†   (source)
  • And if I do, I obsess in such a precise way as to prevent even a drop of disorder.†   (source)
  • Talk to Tanya on your way out, and she'll give you some condoms for the things the pill can't prevent.†   (source)
  • That close, there was plenty we had to say to one another, but habit and probably fear prevented us.†   (source)
  • Hanna had petitioned to let Dot come to school in her oversize Prada handbag—all the girls in Beverly Hills did it, after all—but Rosewood Day said no. So to prevent separation anxiety, Hanna had bought Dot the snuggliest Gucci bed money could buy and left QVC on her bedroom TV during the day.†   (source)
  • I used to think maybe they'd been installed not to keep the prisoners in, but to prevent their public defenders from running away when they realize how bad their cases are.†   (source)
  • "I tell you, the only thing preventing a murder here is that everyone would be a witness," said Major Rawls.†   (source)
  • When Behula's bridegroom was fated to die of snakebite on their wedding night, did building a steel fortress prevent his death?†   (source)
  • I never heard tell that it's against the law for a citizen to do his utmost to prevent a crime from being committed, which is exactly what he did, but maybe you'll say it's my duty to tell the town all about it and not hush it up.†   (source)
  • A disease preventative measure.†   (source)
  • Kaltain drugged you, and I should have known—I should have found a way to prevent her from doing it.†   (source)
  • Also, I figured if we teamed up, we might prevent at least two unnecessary teenage suicides this year.†   (source)
  • They spoke of eternal youth enjoyed outside the confines of loops, of jumping back and forth from future to past with impunity, suffering none of the ill effects that have always prevented such recklessness—in other words, of mastering time without being mastered by death.†   (source)
  • Then he gracefully stepped off the dock into the canoe, placing his feet carefully to prevent the canoe from capsizing.†   (source)
  • Anyone who provides information leading to capture of Scarlet Guard operatives or the prevention of Scarlet Guard actions will be awarded conscription waivers, releasing up to five members of the same family from military service.†   (source)
  • Some of them were very violent, and there had been a mad rush for shelter earlier in the day when one appeared with a sharp machete and was only prevented from doing serious harm by two men who restrained him with the help of a strong rope tied round his waist.†   (source)
  • In those early months, we clung to each other with a rather silly desperation, because, in spite of anything my mother or Mrs. Jordan could say, there was nothing that really prevented us from seeing one another.†   (source)
  • Do you mean to tell me you can't prevent two children from breaking in?†   (source)
  • The National Board of Boo-Boo Prevention†   (source)
  • They want to prevent whatever new disease he's spreading.†   (source)
  • Glenn A. Goldberg — Former Executive Director of the California Consortium for the Prevention of Child Abuse.†   (source)
  • What was the impulse that prevented Cecilia from replacing the caps and lids and screw-tops of her makeup and perfumes?†   (source)
  • Rigged laws and "tests" prevented African Americans from voting.†   (source)
  • Sources: Journal of the American Medical Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.†   (source)
  • I couldn't help but wonder why more wasn't being done to prevent the surplus of drug trafficking in urban neighborhoods like mine.†   (source)
  • The aunt was used to a different type of food, but that did not prevent her from being able to appreciate the wonderful meal Tita had prepared.†   (source)
  • At length he came to a clearing in the forest where rock prevented vegetation from growing.†   (source)
  • Nothing, nothing that anyone could say would prevent her from going back to that place again.†   (source)
  • You got posters and emergency phone numbers for suicide prevention hot lines posted all over the building today.†   (source)
  • I believed that the Cultural Revolution was necessary to prevent revisionism and capitalism from taking over China.†   (source)
  • I think everyone in the neighborhood has tried to think how they could have prevented it.†   (source)
  • It has two purposes—on an Earthen, it prevents outside manipulation of their personal bioelectricity.†   (source)
  • They had built a tall wall to screen off the slum and prevent it from encroaching on Kari Saipu's estate.†   (source)
  • Those who study the complex interplay of cause and effect in the history of the Universe say that this sort of thing is going on all the time, but that we are powerless to prevent it.†   (source)
  • He opened his mouth and it was Clarisse McClellan saying, "Didn't firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going?"†   (source)
  • Simply, it was this: for good purposes, even high purposes, the people of Salem developed a theocracy, a combine of state and religious power whose function was to keep the community together, and to prevent any kind of disunity that might open it to destruction by material or ideological enemies.†   (source)
  • Unlike the other floors, guards stood at the landing, preventing me from simply walking to Maxon's door.†   (source)
  • The foil, similar to that used by NASA, trapped the heat inside the structure while preventing the camouflaged outside surface from overheating.†   (source)
  • We boarded up the windows of our ground-floor apartment, and I helped my parents tape Xs across the windowpanes to prevent the glass from shattering.†   (source)
  • You may have destroyed my chances of using Cedric to darken the world but maybe you're right, Scorpius—maybe prophecies can be prevented, maybe prophecies can be broken.†   (source)
  • Everything was lost, I had fallen off the map: the disorientation of being in the wrong apartment, with the wrong family, was wearing me down, so I felt groggy and punch-drunk, weepy almost, like an interrogated prisoner prevented from sleeping for days.†   (source)
  • A bad case of flu has prevented me from writing to you until today.†   (source)
  • This was the 1950s, years before the advent of cholesterol-lowering drugs and aggressive measures to prevent heart disease.†   (source)
  • Once used for locomotives that no longer operate, the wires still carry 25,000 volts to prevent vandalism.†   (source)
  • If you fear that you or someone you know may have contracted deliria, please call the emergency line toll-free at 1-800-PREVENT to discuss immediate intake and treatment.†   (source)
  • He tripped twice more before he developed a pace that kept his legs far enough apart to prevent the shoes from hitting each other and then he moved into deeper snow.†   (source)
  • It swings the blade feebly, not enough to cut me, but there is nothing I can do to prevent its fall.†   (source)
  • Rhonda was clearly trying to nip at me, see if she could get a rise, but even knowing this didn't prevent the angry blood flush to my stomach every time she accused me of being a baby.†   (source)
  • The excited group prevented Garrow and Eragon from getting near the trader, so they settled on a step and waited.†   (source)
  • He would be careful to send out flank security, to prevent straggling or bunching up, to keep his troops moving at the proper pace and at the proper interval.†   (source)
  • Mud kicks at my legs because the front tire has no fender, nothing to prevent the mud from splashing.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Liddell bustled in, holding the skirts of her gown to prevent them from dragging on the floor, and Alice was glad to be rescued from her solitude.†   (source)
  • Masonry arches stretched from one side of the street to the other, as if to prevent the walls from collapsing.†   (source)
  • But don't let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from forgiving him and removing your hands from around his neck.†   (source)
  • He also said the salt water was good for healing the pain and preventing tetanus.†   (source)
  • He couldn't watch me all the time, of course, and unless he wanted to keep me chained, he couldn't prevent me from taking one route or another out of his world if that was what I wanted to do.†   (source)
  • Sethe had no instructions except "Take her to the Clearing," which he tried to do, but was prevented by some rule the whites had invented about where the dead should rest.†   (source)
  • If the Ousters are attacking Hyperion to prevent the opening of the Time Tombs, as M. Lamia's tale suggests, then the Tombs and this entire area would be a primary target.†   (source)
  • Or prevent them from even meeting.†   (source)
  • Surnames are just an additional means of identification, useful only to prevent confusion in official records.†   (source)
  • She said she would open him up and attach the stomach to the cavity wall with sutures to prevent it from flipping again.†   (source)
  • I was prevented from finding out, as the wagon hit a bump and my numbed hand almost let Abenthy's guilder fall to the footboard of the wagon.†   (source)
  • I felt almost as though my life itself were slipping away from me when I learned that Mother had ordered the front door locked to prevent me from going out again.†   (source)
  • The general in command called on the people to dig trenches round the city to prevent the advance of German tanks.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Jaimito felt broken by these failures and her reminders of how she had tried to prevent them.†   (source)
  • I wiped quickly under my eyes to prevent any smudges.†   (source)
  • I will take him home to see him buried," and no white man nor black man would have stopped me from doing it and I swear before God Almighty, had anyone stood before me to prevent me from doing it I would have struck them down.†   (source)
  • She tells me about her husband's delusional sister, who resisted treatment and was protected by existing laws, which prevented Jacobs and her husband from getting her the help they knew she needed.†   (source)
  • Of course they did not know this, they only wanted to take the land for rubber, but the Olinka have been eating yams to prevent malaria and to control chronic blood disease for thousands and thousands of years.†   (source)
  • My lord, the guns could only have come from someone with sufficient authority to divert them and prevent their destruction.†   (source)
  • Flamel reached out and pressed his forefinger to Scatty's lips, preventing her from saying another word.†   (source)
  • You see, it's illegal to prevent a minor from attending school in the Great State of South Carolina.†   (source)
  • By April 21 Olmsted was again confined to bed "with sore throat, an ulcerating tooth, and much pain preventing sleep."†   (source)
  • So far, Willem's position as a minister had prevented direct action against him and Tine, but he was watched, he said, more closely than ever.†   (source)
  • With more than 100 pounds of gear on my back, I had to grip the rope tight to prevent myself from splattering onto the deck.†   (source)
  • Anatole was prevented from accepting that post by the inconvenience of living in a two-meter-square room with a bucket of his excrement for company in the Thysville penitentiary.†   (source)
  • Tomorrow maybe he would try to call Tony, he would try to make Tony show him exactly what REDRUM was and if there was any way he could prevent it.†   (source)
  • Nadia knew they had been swindled, such things were common, and Saeed knew it too, but preferred for a while to try to believe that something had happened to the man that had prevented him from returning, and when he prayed Saeed prayed not only for the man's return but also for his safety, until it felt foolish to pray for this man any longer, and after that Saeed prayed only for Nadia and for his father, especially for his father, who was not with them, and should have been.†   (source)
  • A judge had agreed and issued an order preventing Mrs. Thomason and her mothers' group from interfering.†   (source)
  • Fallujah had become their safe haven, an anti-capital of Iraq dedicated to overthrowing the interim government and preventing free elections.†   (source)
  • It was thus vitally necessary for the church to step forward with a concise summary of the Christian doctrine, both in order to distance itself from other religions and to prevent schisms within the Christian Church.†   (source)
  • Researchers raced to find what they believed to be the elusive cancer virus, with hopes of developing a vaccine to prevent it.†   (source)
  • I'd prevented him from killing the boy for months, and now he meant to kill him before the Spanish boy could.†   (source)
  • No Law will prevent me from tearing your heart out on the street, Shadowhunter—" That was enough for Clary.†   (source)
  • A team could claim one player as its franchise player, and thus prevent him from becoming a free agent.†   (source)
  • The minor infractions of youth—in one case an act committed at age eight—prevented two from ever being trusted again.†   (source)
  • It wasn't really about where she went, in my opinion: It was the motion she liked, which prevented just about everyone from seeing her being weak.†   (source)
  • You will instead discuss why this is a serious matter and how you should prevent it from happening again.†   (source)
  • To prevent that, I volunteered for Special Forces, did everything I could to get into a front-line unit.†   (source)
  • There was enough artillery in Beekman's toy department to wipe out Red China and the Mau-Mau tribe of Africa, and I personally think some of the toy manufacturers could use a good course in preventative psychiatry.†   (source)
  • Yes, you're right," Jaime would grudgingly admit with a rectitude that prevented him from arguing in bad faith.†   (source)
  • This did not prevent other visitors from coming in, and my first on that morning in my new house was a little boy, maybe eight or nine years old.†   (source)
  • But Tito's shooting, the cancellation of practices that followed, and the change of practice venues had prevented the new version of Kanue and Mandela's team from getting into anything like a groove.†   (source)
  • The immense stacks of steel had to be picked up in a certain way to prevent the bundles from swinging.†   (source)
  • He feels inside and discovers the cord is around the baby's neck and is preventing the baby from coming out.†   (source)
  • We're more about preventing pregnancy, and helping young women learn about their options and reach a decision about what to do if they do get pregnant.†   (source)
  • The wet brain matter slowed the ball's speed, absorbing enough of its energy to prevent it from exiting the other side of the skull through the president's face.†   (source)
  • To prevent anyone from drinking from the aluminum cup used to dip out the water, its edges were as jagged as the crown of a mock king.†   (source)
  • A form of preventive medicine.†   (source)
  • Armansky had done all he civilly could to prevent the meeting taking place, saying that Salander had a cold, was away, or was swamped with other work.†   (source)
  • It was only the bartender and the two men who followed him into the street that prevented them from killing each other.†   (source)
  • Instead, he presses a button on the dashboard that prevents air circulation.†   (source)
  • I later learned that Jarvis Moss blocked his second kick of the day—preventing a crushing loss and securing a spot for us in the SEC Championship.†   (source)
  • This, however, had not prevented Beans from climbing the stairs to the bathroom no fewer than three times during the party.†   (source)
  • When he had fitted the neck and forehead tabs tightly, he had known it was to prevent friction blisters.†   (source)
  • They've told my lawyer they intend to prevent any further such vigilante activity; that a clear statement hasto be made to the public.†   (source)
  • Practical reasons, unfortunately, have prevented me from taking action.†   (source)
  • I think understanding how you do it will also help me figure out how to prevent you from accidentally doing it again.†   (source)
  • I referred his valet to Miss Kenton, but this did not prevent M. Dupont snapping his fingers at me every few hours to say: "Butler!†   (source)
  • Though there was little wind that day, there might be plenty tomorrow, and this bend would prevent the pipe from smoking.†   (source)
  • An ounce of prevention, goes the saying.†   (source)
  • It prevents mortification of the flesh.†   (source)
  • His body is clearly suffering from exhaustion, but something in his head is preventing him from sleeping.†   (source)
  • Pressurized air within the complex prevents contamination by radioactive fallout and biological weapons.†   (source)
  • That was one of many safety precautions Janice and Larry implemented to prevent Adam from injuring himself.†   (source)
  • They walked down the wide, crowded Avenue, surrounded, it seemed, by an atmosphere which prevented others from jostling them or looking at them too directly or for too long a time.†   (source)
  • There are constables at the doors—"to prevent further propagation of the species," it said in the newspaper.†   (source)
  • This is to prevent the spread of infectious diseases that could kill other primates, including humans.†   (source)
  • The Indian authorities would have prevented a gangster from preying so ruthlessly on a middle-class neighborhood.†   (source)
  • I became obsessed with thinking I could've prevented her from being disabled by eating more vegetables and exercising more—I blamed myself for her condition even when your father insisted it wasn't my fault.†   (source)
  • A firefight around a villa forced her to take cover, and then army tanks and armored vehicles prevented her return.†   (source)
  • "I regret that," he said, and seemed very serious about his apology for something he could not have prevented.†   (source)
  • Knowing that I was crushing him, preventing him from breathing, I wanted to get up and disengage myself to allow him to breathe.†   (source)
  • But in ripping it loose, I lost my balance and only Timothy's hand prevented me from falling in.†   (source)
  • And he thought he had made his views obvious to Dick; indeed, hadn't they almost had a fist fight when quite recently he had prevented Dick from raping a terrified young girl?†   (source)
  • You won't prevent me from doing my duty.†   (source)
  • But no matter how big you were, there was no preventing the brutality.†   (source)
  • Did it prevent droughts and floods?†   (source)
  • A sad tone came into his voice from time to time, as if it pained him to have to remember that mortality could prevent him from doing her such a favor.†   (source)
  • The noise of the machine, of course, prevented its occupants from distinguishing any word, but the menace of the open pursuit was apparent.†   (source)
  • The only way to prevent it-with chickens-is to clip blinders on them.†   (source)
  • She'd probably felt it coming on and hidden in the alcove so no one would find her and she could keep her info about the death and destruction she could prevent to her hateful self.†   (source)
  • I RETURN TO THE ring stock car and lie on my bedroll, sickened beyond belief by the thought of what's going on in the menagerie and even more sickened that I'm doing nothing to prevent it.†   (source)
  • "The greatest vigilance is had to prevent a surprise," he wrote, "which we have to fear more than anything."†   (source)
  • Then the picture would become a mere plaything in their hands, and nothing would prevent them from slipping it in an envelope and sending it off to Tomas.†   (source)
  • "If You know this," said Billy, 'isn't there some way you can prevent it?†   (source)
  • My mother made no move to prevent me.†   (source)
  • Two deacons wedged themselves around Brother Jackson as a preventive measure and two large determined-looking men walked down the aisle toward Sister Monroe.†   (source)
  • To Farmer, the distinction between prevention and treatment was artificial, created, he felt, as an excuse for inaction.†   (source)
  • But the safety to be gained here is from preventing the kids from riding shotgun, not from strapping them into a $200 car seat.†   (source)
  • Vulcan, it is true, had nothing on under his apron, which was all that prevented him from scandalizing the downtown as well.†   (source)
  • It is courage, faith, love that holds it so long, that prevents it from taking all who live and breathe within this place.†   (source)
  • Max sighed as he saw Nolan abruptly scoop up Nick to prevent the lymrill from running out on the field.†   (source)
  • For example, it was a crime for a woman to do anything to prevent conception against her husband's wishes.†   (source)
  • Are you trying to prevent something?†   (source)
  • I worried that the weather would prevent Larry from driving up from New York, but I had no way of knowing, so before visiting hours began at three P.M., I tried to pull myself together.†   (source)
  • Now it was a matter of preventing more killing.†   (source)
  • No video cameras; no security sensors; a dead bolt on the front door; no chains; almost nothing to prevent even a half-witted cat burglar from sneaking in during the night and taking his time.†   (source)
  • Digory said that Polly had better take herself home by ring and get something to eat there; he couldn't himself because he had promised to go straight on his message for Aslan, and, if once he showed up again at home, anything might happen to prevent his getting back.†   (source)
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