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How to use the word prevent in a Sentence? Page #10

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We also understand the holiday season can be particularly stressful for some individuals and families, unfortunately, there’s often little police can do to prevent domestic and interpersonal violence, which is the majority of violent crime cases we see.

– Chokwe Antar Lumumba

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Last week, we advanced bipartisan legislation that will enable this chamber to address the debt ceiling on a fast-track basis. For the information of all, Senate Democrats will act tomorrow to prevent default.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's our hope that they take this feedback and they listen to what they hear from the public and the advocacy community, it was a moral outrage when the previous administration engaged in intentional family separation, and it's important that DHS going forward take steps to prevent something like zero tolerance from ever happening again.

– Laurence Benenson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Fasten items in a way that they remain fastened to your car. Think about highway driving at 65 mph and ask yourself if the decoration would stay in place, if mounting anything on the grille, be sure that sufficient airflow is still able to enter the radiator to prevent engine overheating.

– Richard Reina

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I love the idea of screening people who get on a plane to come to the U.S., but we should be able to incorporate that into our travel system here in the United States to prevent folks who are infected from going from, let’s say, parts of this country that have high viral threat to places maybe where there’s lower viral threat, one way to contain the virus is to test people the day of departure. And we have rapid tests that can do this. We just need the systems and the will to do it.

– Jonathan Reiner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Today's decision is a victory for public safety in California, gun violence is an epidemic in this country, but laws like our ban on large-capacity magazines are commonsense ways to prevent this violence, including devastating mass shootings.

– Rob Bonta

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There is no question, we are not going to allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon, period, and when it came to military force for behavior change, that is a pretty fuzzy objective for a military force. When it comes to military force to prevent a country from obtaining a nuclear weapon, that is a very achievable objective.

– Brett McGurk

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They like to funnel pucks from all angles, they get good traffic in front. You've got to do whatever you can to prevent those rebounds.

– Jeremy Swayman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Travel restrictions can delay but not prevent the spread of a highly transmissible variant.

– Mark Woolhouse

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That's why this study is so important, we have shown that we can actually target insomnia with cognitive behavior therapy and prevent depression from occurring.

– Michael Irwin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A stronger expansion of business activity in November defied economists' expectations of a slowdown, but is unlikely to prevent the euro zone from suffering slower growth in the fourth quarter, especially as rising virus cases look set to cause renewed disruptions to the economy in December.

– Chris Williamson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Roddie Bryan did not know, and could not know, that Ahmaud Arbery would be shot. By that time sadly, there was nothing that Roddie Bryan could do to prevent this tragedy. Roddie Bryan didn't shoot anyone. At the time of the shooting, Roddie Bryan was some distance back Roddie Bryan was armed only with Roddie Bryan cellphone, ladies and gentlemen, without Roddie Bryan, there is no case.

– Kevin Gough

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The people who were negatively affected by a particular event should be involved. If a site reflects the people being honored and their wishes, you're much more likely to make an impact, people find it easier to have empathy for a specific individual. With individualized stories, observers find it easier to connect with the people who've been wronged and say,' I see that this was wrong. What can I do to prevent it from happening again ?'.

– Regan Freeman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

– Samuel Adams

added by Normando
2 years ago

What happened at Astroworld Festival this weekend was a horrific tragedy, and the families of victims deserve answers. There may well be criminal liability, and Astroworld Festival is why we continue to fully support the Houston Police Department's criminal investigation, at the same time, Harris County continues its process of identifying a separate independent, third party to look into any operational or administrative steps -- beyond anything criminal -- that could have been taken to prevent this from happening.

– Rafael Lemaitre

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We abhor the loss of innocent life and take all possible measures to prevent them. In this case, we self-reported and investigated the strike according to our own evidence and take full responsibility for the unintended loss of life.

– Central Command

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

What happened at Astroworld this weekend was a horrific tragedy, and the families of victims deserve answers. There may well be criminal liability, and that is why we continue to fully support the Houston Police Department's criminal investigation, at the same time, Harris County continues its process of identifying a separate independent, third party to look into any operational or administrative steps -- beyond anything criminal -- that could have been taken to prevent this from happening.

– Rafael Lemaitre

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What philosophy and, more recently, science have understood but the law has not,” Professor Nussbaum writes, “is that elephants are sentient beings who can feel emotion, foster relationships, create communities, and form a conception of the self … This Court has the opportunity to create legal precedent that provides these living creatures the legal right to thrive and survive in ways that coincide with their specific capabilities, and prevent not only the infliction of physical pain, but emotional and psychological injury as well.”

– Martha Nussbaum

added by AnaDay
2 years ago

The scientific ground for these tests is that these PCR tests can stay positive for up to 12 weeks, and so what we’re working to prevent is that people who would have a persistently positive test from prior infection not be confused with people who are newly infected in that country. They actually have to prove that they’ve had a positive test.

– Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Illustrations of this sort should never be available in the school environment. Ensuring our curricular materials are appropriate for students is a priority for Keller ISD. We are changing the process we use to review and approve books and related materials to prevent future incidents.

– Northside Independent School District

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think there is a concern that the proposed Special Purpose Acquisition Companies regime for Hong Kong is less competitive than that in other jurisdictions, while the Stock Exchange is understandably putting in place these safeguards to prevent abuse and market manipulation, there is perhaps room for relaxation in some areas as retail investors are excluded from investing until the de-SPAC completes.

– Vivian Yiu

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

I've seen way too many people injure themselves, so this was more of a mindset to me, a common sense mindset to me, as far as trying to prevent them from going down that road and potentially injuring themselves.

– Christopher Bannon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Eating tree nuts like walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, cashews, pistachios, and Brazil nuts may help prevent cancer, nuts contain cancer-fighting polyphenols that boost our immune systems to fight cancer, and they also have healthy omega 3 fatty acids, which can starve cancer by cutting off its blood supply.

– William Li

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The behavior demonstrated by this Southern California teacher is incredibly harmful to Native youth. We must set a higher standard of training for educators to prevent racism and discrimination from occurring in the classroom -- especially by faculty.

– Echo Hawk

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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