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How to use the word prevent in a Sentence? Page #12

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Smoke from other fires nearby did limit activity in some places, but not enough to prevent additional growth. Fuel moistures are historically low which is contributing to the critical fire behavior.

Cal Fire

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's the only way you are going to prevent the virus from going up your nose.

Scott Hensley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I would notice simple things like what kind of characters were on his bookbag and ask him about them or notice something he was wearing and give a compliment, the kind of stuff that feels good to everyone, soon, before one of those tantrums would come on, I was able to connect with him and prevent him from spiraling out of control.

Caylee Carullo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A football player’s odds of developing CTE may be most determined by their parents, specifically what age the child is allowed to start playing tackle football, it’s time to accept that CTE is not just a risk for professional and college football players, but also for high school players, and the best way to prevent CTE among football players is to delay the introduction of tackle football.

Chris Nowinski

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is ironic that the president has created this, because this is the thing he was trying to prevent.

John Katko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The only thing you can do to prevent someone else from doing this is to get your vaccine so that another child doesn't have to do this, and another family doesn't have to send their kid away, so another father doesn't have to stand at the back of an ambulance and wonder if that's the last time you're going to see your son.

Carter Butrum

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our elected representatives from both political parties came together that day to perform their constitutional and statutory duty to declare, in the word of the statute, the person elected president, the mob's objective was to stop that from happening. They were prepared to break the law to prevent Congress from performing its constitutional and statutory duty. That is chilling for many reasons.

District Judge Randolph Moss

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I would welcome him to look at the data and see there has been a significant increase, this may be a situation when people refuse to see racism or misogyny. I think they’re just really refusing to see reality and how unfortunately, in the U.S, we have allowed those forces to prevent people from living their lives.

Manjusha Kulkarni

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's just a really great tool to prevent the transmission of disease. And so, it just seems like something we should be doing. It's logical.

Parent Emilio Bruna

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Instinctively I knew I was not going to allow anything to prevent me from fulfilling my dream, epilepsy is part of me, but that does not define me. We are in charge of our destiny. Woodson, who is from Ohio — though Alan Faneca went to Michigan — began by singing praise for Alan Faneca mother, who presented Alan Faneca.

Alan Faneca

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have started a third vaccination campaign to reduce the serious cases, and if we see a decrease it could prevent or delay more difficult steps.

Nachman Ash

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The vaccine doesn't necessarily prevent it from happening, i'm young enough, I'd rather give it (the vaccine) to people who need it. I don't need it. I'm a healthy, young individual that will continue to work on my health.

Bryson DeChambeau

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Cutting off funding to districts which choose to require masking to prevent the spread of Covid-19, a potentially deadly communicable disease, would violate the states' paramount duty' to educate all children, not just the unmasked.

Paul Callan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Really, handwashing is one of the number one most effective ways to help prevent the spread of any kind of disease, whether at home or in the community.

Dane Snyder

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Every person that we can vaccinate is another person that's not going to be sick, the vaccines work to prevent severe illness, hospitalization and death.

Desmar Walkes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In all of this, there is still good news. Our vaccines are working to prevent severe illness, hospitalizations, and death. Vaccines are providing protection both for individuals and communities across the country.

Rochelle Walensky

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Among federal employees there was a concern about the politicization of their work in which they take great pride and work very hard, in general, there was both concern, but also an appreciation that this administration is working very hard to... correct things that have happened and to work with federal scientists and technologists to put in place best practices and procedures that can prevent this from happening again.

Alondra Nelson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We must continue workingtogether to address the root causes of migration to prevent these incidents from happening.

Vicente Gonzalez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I sincerely appreciate her efforts to memorialize those precious lives lost to suicide and to prevent further tragedies from occurring.

Mike McGirl

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The point is to locate infected people as soon as possible and prevent them from spreading it around everywhere.

Masaharu Isobe

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is a big gesture that there is hope and a plan moving forward that there is a partnership that can hopefully lead to a better system to prevent dating violence on college campuses.

Kirwin Seger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I bled, I sweat and I fought to prevent those people coming in through that entrance, we got pushed back all the way to the magnetometer by the second door. And just to regain that space took us about another hour. We literally were fighting inch by inch. And to move one step, that was a 10-minute, 15-minute ordeal.

Aquilino Gonell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Awareness and precautions can help prevent the disease in people, while it's rare for people to contract plague, we want to make sure everyone knows the symptoms. The disease is treatable if caught early.

Jennifer House

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In Colorado, we expect to have fleas test positive for plague during the summer months, awareness and precautions can help prevent the disease in people.

Jennifer House

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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