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President Biden detailed our efforts to prevent and then respond to the invasion, including by imposing costs on Russia, the president underscored his support for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis. – White House	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Initially, we did not plan to storm them in order to prevent destruction and minimize losses among personnel and civilians, and although we do not exclude such a possibility, however, as individual groupings complete the tasks set, and they are successfully solved, our forces and means will be concentrated on the main thing -- the complete liberation of Donbas. – Colonel General Sergei Rudskoy	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The public and individual experts are wondering what we are doing in the area of the blockaded Ukrainian cities, these actions are carried out with the aim of causing such damage to military infrastructure, equipment, personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the results of which allow us not only to tie down their forces and prevent them from strengthening their grouping in the Donbas, but also will not allow them to do this until the Russian army completely liberates the territories of the DPR and LNR. – Sergei Rudskoy	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Sanctions are not an end to themselves. They serve a higher purpose. And that purpose is to deter and prevent, they’re meant to prevent and deter a large-scale invasion of Ukraine that could involve the seizure of major cities, including Kyiv. They’re meant to prevent large-scale human suffering that could involve tens of thousands of casualties in a conflict. – Daleep Singh	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As the investigation continues, I will examine details to see if there are any steps that could have been taken to prevent this type of tragedy. – Asa Hutchinson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You have the power, the capacity, and the responsibility to strengthen the cybersecurity and resilience of the critical services and technologies on which Americans rely, we need everyone to do their part to meet one of the defining threats of our time — your vigilance and urgency today can prevent or mitigate attacks tomorrow. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We've always said that the number one goal is to prevent hospitalization, but families would like them to prevent transmission in the household, particularly if they have people in the household that are at risk like the elderly. – Janet Englund	Found on CNN 2 years ago
A review of his broadcasts suggests Dr. Oz has used his show to promote transgender ideology, including things like mastectomies on healthy teen girls and using pharmaceutical drugs to prevent puberty on healthy children, such actions permanently alter healthy bodies, can result in irreversable sterilization, and lead to more suicidal ideation, not less, as studies have shown. – Michael Geer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We are very grateful for the generous outpouring of support for Katie Meyer and our family and thank you all deeply. Katie Meyer was a bright light in our lives and the lives of so many. Katie Meyer light will continue to shine through the changes that we intend to accomplish in Katie Meyer honor, when the time is appropriate, we will provide further information regarding the desired and necessary change to prevent this tragedy from happening to other students and their families. We ask that everyone respect our family's privacy and give us the time we need to heal. – Gina Meyer	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Justice Department remains committed to using every available federal tool — including criminal, civil, and administrative actions — to combat and prevent COVID-19 related fraud, we will continue to hold accountable those who seek to exploit the pandemic for personal gain, to protect vulnerable populations and to safeguard the integrity of taxpayer-funded programs. – Attorney General Merrick B. Garland	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces, should they approach. – Victoria Nuland	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Ukraine has biological research facilities which in fact we are quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces, may be seeking to gain control of, so we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach. – Victoria Nuland	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Putin probably still remains confident that Russia can militarily defeat The Ukrainians and wants to prevent Western support from tipping the balance and forcing a conflict with NATO. – United States	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Ukraine is now been executed by Russia for deciding to be free and for believing in democracy and rule of law, and now, when we are begging America to give us protection of our skies to prevent deaths of millions of civilians. – Daria Kaleniuk	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
With this legislation, we can help fight assault and harassment in maritime transportation through penalties for perpetrators, new requirements for owners, expanded legal recourse for victims, and a myriad of policies to prevent sexual assault and harassment in the first place. – Peter DeFazio	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The goal of The Pfizer vaccine is to prevent severe illness. – Paul Offit	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Sanctions, blockades, economic influence, building of alliances against Putin's actions while simultaneously supplying Ukraine with weapons and other aide will hopefully prevent escalations and unintended worldwide consequences. – Mark Hertling	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Use multi-factor authentication to log in to critical systems … and to prevent unauthorized changes (like turning off power or opening a valve on a dam). – Lou Steinberg	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Make sure that all critical and all internet-facing systems are fully patched to mitigate ransomware and data destruction, use multi-factor authentication to log in to critical systems … and to prevent unauthorized changes (like turning off power or opening a valve on a dam). – Lou Steinberg	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
No one expected the sanctions to prevent anything from happening, this could take time, and we have to show resolve, so he knows what’s coming and so the people of Russia know what he’s brought on them, this is what this is all about. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
No one should think that it’s our goal to max out on sanctions. Sanctions are not an end to themselves, they serve a higher purpose. And that purpose is to deter and prevent.They’re meant to prevent and deter a large-scale invasion of Ukraine that could involve the seizure of major cities, including Kyiv. They’re meant to prevent large-scale human suffering that could involve tens of thousands of casualties in a conflict. – Daleep Singh	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
By adjusting our mitigation measures, based on these metrics, we’ve been able to protect and save the lives of our residents, as well as prevent our healthcare system from collapsing. – Lori Lightfoot	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The most important thing is to prevent a new armed attack on Ukraine, and therefore we support all efforts by NATO allies to find a political solution, and NATO's also ready to sit down in the NATO-Russia Council with Russia. If Russia decides to use force, that may, of course, be a large number of people fleeing Ukraine. – Jens Stoltenberg	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This entire thing was manipulated with two goals in mind—to prevent Trump from winning, and 2, if he won, to handcuff him from being able to govern the country properly. – George Papadopoulos	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

President Biden detailed our efforts to prevent and then respond to the invasion, including by imposing costs on Russia, the president underscored his support for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis.

– White House

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Initially, we did not plan to storm them in order to prevent destruction and minimize losses among personnel and civilians, and although we do not exclude such a possibility, however, as individual groupings complete the tasks set, and they are successfully solved, our forces and means will be concentrated on the main thing -- the complete liberation of Donbas.

– Colonel General Sergei Rudskoy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The public and individual experts are wondering what we are doing in the area of the blockaded Ukrainian cities, these actions are carried out with the aim of causing such damage to military infrastructure, equipment, personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the results of which allow us not only to tie down their forces and prevent them from strengthening their grouping in the Donbas, but also will not allow them to do this until the Russian army completely liberates the territories of the DPR and LNR.

– Sergei Rudskoy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Sanctions are not an end to themselves. They serve a higher purpose. And that purpose is to deter and prevent, they’re meant to prevent and deter a large-scale invasion of Ukraine that could involve the seizure of major cities, including Kyiv. They’re meant to prevent large-scale human suffering that could involve tens of thousands of casualties in a conflict.

– Daleep Singh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As the investigation continues, I will examine details to see if there are any steps that could have been taken to prevent this type of tragedy.

– Asa Hutchinson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You have the power, the capacity, and the responsibility to strengthen the cybersecurity and resilience of the critical services and technologies on which Americans rely, we need everyone to do their part to meet one of the defining threats of our time — your vigilance and urgency today can prevent or mitigate attacks tomorrow.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We've always said that the number one goal is to prevent hospitalization, but families would like them to prevent transmission in the household, particularly if they have people in the household that are at risk like the elderly.

– Janet Englund

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A review of his broadcasts suggests Dr. Oz has used his show to promote transgender ideology, including things like mastectomies on healthy teen girls and using pharmaceutical drugs to prevent puberty on healthy children, such actions permanently alter healthy bodies, can result in irreversable sterilization, and lead to more suicidal ideation, not less, as studies have shown.

– Michael Geer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are very grateful for the generous outpouring of support for Katie Meyer and our family and thank you all deeply. Katie Meyer was a bright light in our lives and the lives of so many. Katie Meyer light will continue to shine through the changes that we intend to accomplish in Katie Meyer honor, when the time is appropriate, we will provide further information regarding the desired and necessary change to prevent this tragedy from happening to other students and their families. We ask that everyone respect our family's privacy and give us the time we need to heal.

– Gina Meyer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Justice Department remains committed to using every available federal tool — including criminal, civil, and administrative actions — to combat and prevent COVID-19 related fraud, we will continue to hold accountable those who seek to exploit the pandemic for personal gain, to protect vulnerable populations and to safeguard the integrity of taxpayer-funded programs.

– Attorney General Merrick B. Garland

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces, should they approach.

– Victoria Nuland

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Ukraine has biological research facilities which in fact we are quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces, may be seeking to gain control of, so we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach.

– Victoria Nuland

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Putin probably still remains confident that Russia can militarily defeat The Ukrainians and wants to prevent Western support from tipping the balance and forcing a conflict with NATO.

– United States

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Ukraine is now been executed by Russia for deciding to be free and for believing in democracy and rule of law, and now, when we are begging America to give us protection of our skies to prevent deaths of millions of civilians.

– Daria Kaleniuk

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

With this legislation, we can help fight assault and harassment in maritime transportation through penalties for perpetrators, new requirements for owners, expanded legal recourse for victims, and a myriad of policies to prevent sexual assault and harassment in the first place.

– Peter DeFazio

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The goal of The Pfizer vaccine is to prevent severe illness.

– Paul Offit

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Sanctions, blockades, economic influence, building of alliances against Putin's actions while simultaneously supplying Ukraine with weapons and other aide will hopefully prevent escalations and unintended worldwide consequences.

– Mark Hertling

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Use multi-factor authentication to log in to critical systems … and to prevent unauthorized changes (like turning off power or opening a valve on a dam).

– Lou Steinberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Make sure that all critical and all internet-facing systems are fully patched to mitigate ransomware and data destruction, use multi-factor authentication to log in to critical systems … and to prevent unauthorized changes (like turning off power or opening a valve on a dam).

– Lou Steinberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

No one expected the sanctions to prevent anything from happening, this could take time, and we have to show resolve, so he knows what’s coming and so the people of Russia know what he’s brought on them, this is what this is all about.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

No one should think that it’s our goal to max out on sanctions. Sanctions are not an end to themselves, they serve a higher purpose. And that purpose is to deter and prevent.They’re meant to prevent and deter a large-scale invasion of Ukraine that could involve the seizure of major cities, including Kyiv. They’re meant to prevent large-scale human suffering that could involve tens of thousands of casualties in a conflict.

– Daleep Singh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

By adjusting our mitigation measures, based on these metrics, we’ve been able to protect and save the lives of our residents, as well as prevent our healthcare system from collapsing.

– Lori Lightfoot

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The most important thing is to prevent a new armed attack on Ukraine, and therefore we support all efforts by NATO allies to find a political solution, and NATO's also ready to sit down in the NATO-Russia Council with Russia. If Russia decides to use force, that may, of course, be a large number of people fleeing Ukraine.

– Jens Stoltenberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This entire thing was manipulated with two goals in mind—to prevent Trump from winning, and 2, if he won, to handcuff him from being able to govern the country properly.

– George Papadopoulos

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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