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  1. Preventing

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of preventing in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of preventing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of preventing in a Sentence

  1. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson:

    Our government’s become pretty good at detecting and preventing something hatched from overseas.

  2. Zhang Dejiang:

    In the face of a grave and complex situation in the fight against terrorism both at home and abroad, it is of crucial importance that China intensifies its anti-terrorism activities, the improvements to our counterterrorism laws will be of great importance for preventing and punishing terrorist activities according to law, for safeguarding national and public security and for protecting lives and property.

  3. Jimena Loveluck:

    This is a very clear example of how quickly this virus spreads and how many people can be impacted in a very short amount of time we can not hope to accomplish our goal of containing COVID-19 and preventing additional cases, hospitalizations and deaths without full community support and cooperation.

  4. Jake Fisher:

    We've been pushing for this feature for a long time because it's very good at preventing crashes, we have telegraphed for some time that this was coming.

  5. Thomas Dobbs:

    This is a real tragedy and speaks to the importance of us preventing transmission, although severe outcomes in children are rare, when we have a whole lot of transmission we have a lot of cases we are unfortunately going to see this type of tragedy from time to time.

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