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How to use the word preventing in a Sentence?

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What if we pour all our resources into building a smart city, only to realize that we have forgotten to cultivate smart minds? Our obsession with smartphones and mindless entertainment has led us astray, preventing us from truly experiencing the beauty of the world and connecting with others. Let us not trade genuine human connections for a virtual reality, for it is through true smiles and heartfelt encounters that our cities truly come alive.

– Yvonne Padmos

added by Freelancer
2 months ago

We believe that any legislation addressing harm on social media should put the onus on companies to make their platforms safer, instead of preventing kids and teens from being on platforms at all.

– Zamaan Qureshi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s important that we take time to acknowledge those losses and what they mean for us as people and as a community, so, that later we can gather our energies and focus on preventing these tragedies.

– Craig Greenberg

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1 year ago

Emergency contraception is incredibly safe and effective at preventing pregnancy when used in the right time frame, relationships are complicated. There can be situations where there isn’t access to emergency contraception or women might not ask the partner to use it. So being able to have access to one pill and a backup is a great idea.

– Colleen Denny

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have major issues with barriers to passage in their historic habitat, with dams preventing them from utilizing hundreds of miles of it.

– Jordan Traverso

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have everything an ER can give her, besides for an oxygen tank, at home, the hope is that we are preventing even needing medical care.

– Courtesy Jaimie Schnacky

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1 year ago

For his exact mutation, if you think about DNA, you have two copies of everything. He has one good copy and one abnormal copy. Not only is his bad copy improperly functioning, it’s also preventing the healthy copy from functioning properly, a knockdown ASO would target the abnormal copy of the gene, by preventing it from turning into the abnormal protein, without affecting the healthy copy.

– Christelle Achkar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These regular, uniquely American tragedies must be a call to action for our political leaders. We need decisive change to US gun laws and regulations. The cost of political inaction on preventing gun violence is increasingly, tragically clear.

– Kris Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Americans are tired of fearing if they or their families will be the next victims of a mass shooting. Our children are tired of being told to ‘run, hide, and fight,’ these regular, uniquely American tragedies must be a call to action for our political leaders. We need decisive change to US gun laws and regulations. The cost of political inaction on preventing gun violence is increasingly, tragically clear.

– Kris Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think there’s more to doing medicine then counting body bags, preventing things that can be life changing, crippling, and certainly change your quality of life forever going forward, and your cost of doing things going forward, I think is a good thing.

– Howard Weintraub

Found on CNN
1 year ago

MENS REA”: On January 16, 1944, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and one of his deputies, Randolph Paul, personally visited the President Franklin D. Roosevelt in order to coerce him to finally act and do something to help refugees escaping The Holocaust. More diplomatic efforts had failed, so Morgenthau's approach strengthened. The report brought to the President reveals a desperate and necessary act to coerce a response from an administration that was systematically and overtly preventing both private and official help for the victims escaping Hitler. The report documents a pattern of attempts by the State Department to obstruct rescue opportunities and block the flow of Holocaust information to the United States. Morgenthau warned that the refugee issue had become “a boiling pot on [Capitol] Hill,” and Congress was likely to pass the rescue resolution if faced with a White House unwilling to act. Roosevelt understood the deep implications and pre-empted Congress by establishing the War Refugee Board. The result was “Executive Order 9417” creating the War Refugee Board, issued on January 22, 1944.

– A.E. Samaan

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1 year ago

Long Covid is pretty real, and there’s a sizable share of the population who continue to suffer health effects related to Covid that are preventing them from being able to work, then there’s ongoing child care challenges; we’ve got a lot of folks who retired early; we’ve got limited immigration not where it was pre-pandemic.

– John Leer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We're going to continue to employ the strategy that we've been employing, which is aggressive prosecutions and prevention, we are very focused on making sure that we deter crimes at the border, including the scourge of fentanyl trafficking that's killing our residents, as well as preventing deaths in our community by getting into the community through an abundance of outreach programs in partnership with our law enforcement agency partners.

– Randy Grossman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Of all the religious exemption requests submitted by midshipmen at the Naval Academy for the COVID-19 vaccine, not a single one has been approved, my constituent has already been told she can’t receive a diploma and graduate due to her status as it relates to the COVID-19 vaccine. The Navy is simply holding these individuals until the injunction preventing the separation of naval personnel is lifted.

– Greg Steube

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Research is the reason we have all the breakthroughs that we've had so far, we clearly need breakthroughs… to help us move ever forward toward that ultimate goal of preventing breast cancer.

– Dorraya El-Ashry

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. Consequently those who live under the dominion of Puritanism become exceedingly desirous of power. Now love of power does far more harm than love of drink or any of the other vices against which Puritans protest. Of course, in virtuous people love of power camouflages itself as love of doing good, but this makes very little difference to its social effects. It merely means that we punish our victims for being wicked, instead of for being our enemies. In either case, tyranny and war result. Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

– Bertrand Russell

added by Normando
1 year ago

I’ve traveled through many communities that have been plagued by violence and crime, no one in those communities want to defund the police. They want law enforcement to focus on preventing and solving violent crime.

– White House

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

– Ted Nugent

added by Normando
1 year ago

We should be careful about not stigmatizing the disease and preventing people who are not really open about their sexuality from seeking care.

– Saju Mathew

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Supreme Court abandoned 50 years of precedent and took away the constitutional right to abortion, preventing women all over the country from being able to make critical decisions about our bodies, our health, and our futures. Justice Department is committed to protecting access to reproductive services.

– Vanita Gupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He's tough. He's combat seasoned. He's smart and has a deep understanding of Europe and Russia, chris Cavoli is the right officer in the right job at the right time. … We are at that pivotal moment, a transition period in history. And EUCOM makes it matter. You are upholding the rules based international order... You are protecting America's vital interests. And, importantly, you are preventing Great Power war.

– Mark Milley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The central government regulators seem to be incapable of enforcing those regulations aimed at preventing this kind of bank run from occurring.

– Frank Xie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The package is ready to go, the vast majority of senators on both sides of the aisle want it. There's now only one thing holding us back the junior senator from Kentucky is preventing swift passage of Ukraine aid because he wants to add at the last minute his own changes directly into the bill. His change is strongly opposed by many members of both parties.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm a Bob Arum citizen and the Treasury department does not take these steps lightly, we will respect them( sanctions preventing Kinahan doing business in the US).

– Bob Arum

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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