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How to use the word prevent in a Sentence? Page #5

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I've never seen drips get better in time. They always get worse, so Barbara Reich want to make sure Barbara Reich take action to prevent that.

Kurt Clason

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Abortion is essential health care, and it is irresponsible and dangerous to prevent people from accessing the care they need.

Rebecca Gibron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

On the Taiwan question, United States have made United States stance loud and clear, the Embassy is making all United States efforts to prevent the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and the stability of China-US relations being damaged by the potential visit of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan.

Liu Pengyu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I just don't understand why Hancock County Sheriff deputies couldn't put her in a seat belt why Hancock County Sheriff deputies violated so many policies to prevent anything like this from happening, hancock County Sheriff deputies loved her regardless, unconditionally. Now Hancock County Sheriff deputies got to raise these kids and tell them a story, and I'm not planning on telling no lie.

Attorney Ben Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You're trying to be as frictionless for the customer but still prevent the loss, you get a lot of pushback from operations and merchandising teams for locking stuff up.

Mark Stinde

Found on CNN
1 year ago

After just three months on the Ornish lifestyle program, the research found a number of genes that regulate or prevent disease are turned on, and genes that cause many of the mechanisms that cause all these different conditions are turned off.

Dean Ornish

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But I believe that it's not one diet and lifestyle intervention for heart disease, another for diabetes or prostate cancer, and yet a different one for Alzheimer's. It's really the same for all these different conditions, to reverse the disease, you need to follow the interventions nearly 100%. If you're just trying to prevent disease, then the more you change, the more you improve. But what matters most is your overall way of eating, living and loving so that we can all die young as old as possible.

Dean Ornish

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sadly, it's the same old story: unable to quickly diagnose, unable to vaccinate high risk persons, unable to rapidly treat those at highest risk. The situation is even more frustrating because unlike what happened with Covid-19 there's already existing technology to diagnose, treat, vaccinate to prevent monkeypox. i think a lot of people within the community that monkeypox is affecting really feel left behind.

Christopher Vasquez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have to recognize that oftentimes simply toggling on a private mode does very little to prevent third-party tracking and especially law enforcement tracking.

Albert Fox

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We can prevent serious illness, we can keep people out of the hospital and especially out of the ICU, We can save lives, and we can minimize the disruptions caused by COVID-19. Even in the face of BA.5, the tools we have continue to work, we are at a point in the pandemic where most COVID-19 deaths are preventable.

Ashish Jha

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I'm not going to sugar coat my disappointment here, especially since nearly all issues in the climate and energy space had been resolved, this is our last chance to prevent the most catastrophic — and costly — effects of climate change. We can't come back in another decade and forestall hundreds of billions — if not trillions — in economic damage and undo the inevitable human toll.

Ron Wyden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She is 18 years now and living with her mother, this did not occur under my roof. I do not condone this, but since I ’m unable to prevent it, I urged her to keep it classy, creative and not sacrifice her integrity.

Charlie Sheen

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

But if we catch people early enough, can we prevent it from progressing? oh, my God. Pick a day.

Schneider Williams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With the help of third-party specialists, we are conducting a full investigation to determine the cause and scope of the incident, that investigation is still ongoing, and we are taking steps to help prevent this from happening again.

Paul Toomey

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The State of Texas is acting swiftly to ensure our schools are secure and that children, teachers, and families across Texas have the support and resources they need to be safe as we work to prevent future tragedies like the heinous crime committed in Uvalde.

Greg Abbott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The combination of the kind of language used by the G7 and( China's formal inclusion) in NATO strategic documents is indeed a blow for( China), and something that they would have hoped and wished to be able to prevent, it's an exceptionally strong period in terms of transatlantic cooperation and that translates for China in ways that they're very concerned about.

Andrew Small

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[ My dad ] died in 2011 and he was the smartest human being I'd ever met, probably the smartest human being that most people who met him had ever met, and to watch somebody that smart lose their mind, lose their brain, lose their ability to know what a fork is or know who I was, was an extraordinary thing to behold. And so I started asking a lot of questions and trying to understand what was it that caused that and how could one prevent that if they could from having that happen to them.

Maria Shriver

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We, as we took over the investigation, made it clear to them that they should not be investigating any of these matters. Secondly, we asked that the commanders reach out to current employees as well as former employees to encourage them to participate. So any efforts to intimidate witnesses or prevent them from doing it would be inconsistent with that.

Roger Goodell

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I would like to hope that people of all political persuasions understand the threat that this represents and what we need to do as a nation to prevent this from ever happening again, this is an attack on our democracy.

Patricia Newman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Reinfections are going to be pretty inevitable until we have vaccines or widespread mandates that are going to prevent cases rising again. But the good news is that we are in, I think, a much better spot than we were without the vaccines, there's so much of this virus out there that it seems inevitable.

Pavitra Roychoudhury

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She is 18 years now and living with her mother, this did not occur under my roof. I do not condone this, but since I’m unable to prevent it, I urged her to keep it classy, creative and not sacrifice her integrity.

Charlie Sheen

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's predictable why these TV talkers are talking like this on the TV. They want to talk about something other than the January 6th hearings on the actual seditious insurrection that led to the deaths of multiple people, but drawing any equivalence between rioters storming our Capitol to prevent the counting of electoral ballots and a cigar-chomping toy dog is a shameful and grotesque insult to the memory of everyone who died.

Stephen Colbert

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I didn't accept that. I said, ‘That's not acceptable,’ so, I resumed CPR and I fought as hard as I could to prevent the loss. And sometime later, one of the responders took me away from Zach.

Chris Didier

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

My understanding is it wasn't moved in an effort to try and prevent anyone from getting help, it was more of a situation of, 'You guys are going to stay here. You guys are gonna stay here until the cops come, you're going to have to explain the situation.’ So they didn't want the other boys taking off because they really felt they were in the right.

Ethan Liming

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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