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All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

George Bernard Shaw

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.

Clifford Stoll

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Benjamin Franklin

A stumble may prevent a fall.

English Proverb

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Epicurus

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.

John Stuart Mill

We believe it's our responsibility to prevent that from happening.

Paul Goggins

We've taken immediate steps to prevent something like this from occurring.

Denise Almazan

More than corrupting the public trust, these Guatemalan police officials have been Trojan horses for the very addiction and devastation that they were entrusted to prevent.

Karen Tandy

Folks will see the birds and want to feed them. That is not a good idea, because it will prevent them from moving on. So people should not try to feed them. Also, people who don't have experience in trying to capture them should not attempt to capture them. It makes the whole situation harder. If you chase them around, they're only going to keep moving around.

Bob Eriksen

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

James Anthony Froude

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

Eric Hoffer

This education campaign will be a great tool to advance our mission of preventing and combating immigration-related employment discrimination.

Wan J. Kim

Preventing influenza in children, we think, will reduce influenza in our society.

Robert Belshe

It's only the tar sands that prevent the country from making its targets under Kyoto.

Tim Flannery

Tried to prevent that.

Joseph Quinn

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

P. Bourget

We are actively seeking to prevent these kind of things from falling into the hands of people who have no legitimate reason for owning them. It is against the law to own or sell them. We will investigate the information passed to us by the Manchester Evening News.

Dave Jones

I've spoken to some lesbian and gay (city) employees and I asked them to be here, but they are concerned that becoming activists will prevent them from getting promotions.

Patrick Franklin

Continuing the operations and having someone there to prevent vandalism top my worries.

David Mills

You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.

Brock Chisholm

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

Living for Tomorrow: The Power of Individuals to Prevent Violence in Schools and Communitites.

Larry Bell

We're trying to be proactive here and prevent a bigger problem.

Steve Bowser

No quarantine measure can prevent the pandemic. It can only slow it for a few days.

Dmitry Lvov

We are disappointed with the study results. The children of America deserve an 'A' playground; most of the factors that are preventing them from having the playground they deserve can be easily remedied.

Donna Thompson

There is no consular immunity that would prevent a trial from going ahead. A trial can even be held in absentia.

Armando Spataro

I do everything you can do ... all the exercises for your shoulder to try to get it as strong as possible, to make it as stable as you can. For me, that's the only way I sleep at night, knowing I've done everything to prepare to try and prevent that.

Jaret Wright

I appreciate the efforts of the many state and local officials and businesses that working very hard as we speak to prevent more of these attacks and to help with recovery efforts.

Michael Crapo

In this respect, I have called before these attacks for halting these operations so that people will not believe the attacks are aimed at preventing them from participating in the referendum.

Hajim Al hasani

Eating certain foods can help prevent cancer. There is documentation stating that there are certain foods that you can eat that either increase or decrease a person's risk of getting certain forms of cancer.

Rhea Rosa

It's as important for children to know how to prevent heart disease, cancer and diabetes as it is for children to learn geography, ... These are important life skills that are not intuitively obvious.

Margo Wootan

Our job is ensure that those deals that injure consumers don't go through, ... On the other hand, we don't want to prevent 99 out of the 100 deals that are either neutral from a competitive point of view or actually pro consumer and pro efficiency.

Lou Dobbs

Bonds will probably show a gradual decline toward when the central bank will shift monetary policy. The possibility of a policy shift will stay in the minds of investors, preventing them from buying debt.

Akitsugu Bandou

The conference will focus on preventing crime in rural areas. People think about crime in urban areas, but there are crimes in rural areas, and we are often limited in our resources.

Bill Rose

This will definitely spark a review of the current procedures as well as looking at what additionally we can do to prevent something like this from happening again in the future.

Joe Donzelli

We're seeking appellate relief to prevent a lawyer who was employed for the briefest of times from capitalizing on that employment and violating his oath as a lawyer.

Mark Geragos

The Iraqi national resistance will stand against the plan of provoking civil war in Iraq, and we are ready to fight to prevent it.

Abu Mohammed

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

There was nothing to prevent the last goal. I played it perfectly. I read the pass for the one-timer and came across perfectly. It's frustrating to sit here and talk about it. We got a big point. It's frustrating, but there was nothing I could have done differently.

Jocelyn Thibault

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

We always knew that the environment has a very strong effect on the onset of depression. With children particularly, if you can delay the onset for as long as possible or even prevent it, you can do a great service to a child.

Myrna M. Weissman

It's terrific. This gives us another drug that we can use to prevent breast cancer that is less risky than the only other drug we had.

Susan Love

There was no medical reason that would prevent a successful-term pregnancy with her through the use of donated eggs.

Jane Miller

Because it's deleting files from network drives, it doesn't do anything to the client machine, ... If the infected machine is linked to another machine's C: drive, it could delete that machines root directory and prevent the other machine from booting up, but won't do anything to that machine itself.

Jimmy Kuo

Anything that can keep a driver from being distracted can prevent accidents and save lives, and the safety of our Sailors is important.

Capt. Shawn Morrissey

By taking the necessary action at the right time, businesses can prevent themselves going the same way and bearing the brunt of another company's business failure.

Richard Lloyd

The security institution is the only guarantee to prevent sedition and civil war. Civil war began in Somalia after the collapse of the army and security institutions.

Ala Hosni

We all agree that we are at a dangerous moment, and our goal remains to prevent the fighting that's already going on from escalating to a general war.

Ibrahim Rugova

The important thing is with police manpower - if it can give them a different set of eyes, if it can make them aware of a sensitive situation as it happens, if it allows them to prevent something from happening, it makes downtown a safer and more secure environment.

Dee Stanley

I trust that, even with the new limitations, our security forces will be able to control and prevent the contraband of weapons and people.

Moshe Katsav

This is exactly what we had feared. We need to continue to do as much as possible to help mitigate this situation and prevent, insofar as that's possible, any such occurrences in the future.

Stephanie Bunker

We have people who are willing to chain themselves to that house to prevent them from tearing it down if we have to.

Henry Lewis

Our strategy is to focus on women to try to prevent cervical cancer in the most cost effective way. We intend to seek licensure for a broad age range.

Gary Dubin

By fraud they would like to prevent me from contesting and for being the main competitor and main challenger to Mugabe. They realise I have built a credible base in the country and he stands no chance in a free and fair poll.

Morgan Tsvangirai

It is better to prevent than to cure.

Peruvian Proverb

Older adults should do more reps with smaller weights. This will build strength, increase balance and prevent loss of bone density. And those are all important health concerns for older people.

Bobbi Dunn

We wanted to do something that would be a movement toward preventing what happened to Gary from happening again.

Ron Erskine

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

Chuck Yeager

We have a number of things to prevent that type of thing. We have filters on our computers. We are constantly vigilant. ... If people on their home computers were as vigilant as we are at school, we may not have had the bigger problem.

Chris Dunshee

The appeal seemed to be effective in preventing Indonesian Muslims from being unnecessarily involved in these bloody wars.

Azyumardi Azra

What does the state government know that is preventing them from going forward? They know something we don't know.

Donald Harrison

A few hundred dollars and for that you're trying to shut down the defendant by preventing him from collecting on an account that was voluntarily entered into.

David Crockett

For some it's more important that we prevent people from being misidentified. For other people it's more important not to lock anyone out.

Victor Lee

We will examine the condition of their arteries before, during and after therapy, and compare it to women on no therapy to see if the hormones cause or prevent changes leading to heart disease.

Dr. Nanette Santoro

It was not a difficult decision (to retire). The years are passing and you cannot prevent that. You cannot stay at the top of a sport all your life. I have been fortunate to continue for so long. I had a gift from God.

Jan Zelezny

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Paul Valery

Serena has developed inflammation and swelling of her left knee joint over the past two days. After assessment and treatment, we have advised her to rest and continue treatment to prevent further irritation.

Donna Sutton

It's actually unlikely that the Paisley campaign can win, in the sense that it can prevent this referendum (from) being passed.

Paul Bew

I tell our guys that we're not out here trying to prevent shots, but we want to contest shots.

Brad Tingey

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

The mission is to really raise awareness so that we can get involved in trying to prevent it from happening.

Linda Krug

It's not something that was directly in our control. We have policies in place to prevent this from happening . . . data compromised occurred on their end, as opposed to our end.

Siobhan Macdermott

Creating a vaccine to prevent transmission of HIV, or at least to limit its pathogenic and epidemic potential, is one of the great challenges of our time.

Bette Korber

There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.

Thomas Love Peacock

Had he been able to portray the Democrats as a party that's preventing him from solving the problems of California, I think we could have painted ourselves into a very dangerous corner.

Darry Sragow

The lack of emigration rules and regulations allowed Japan to argue for a temporary halt to emigration to Hawaii in its quest to prevent passage of a Japanese exclusion act.

Wayne Patterson

There's nothing you can do. Once it's done, just try to prevent it. All you can do is pray.

Hitesh Patel

The Federal government continues to support the critical work of our nation's firefighters through the Fire Prevention and Safety grants by addressing the issues that can help prevent fires from happening.

Charlie Dickinson

Police have their function, which is to deal with the problem after the fact. For this body, the first thing is how do we prevent this from happening in the first place?

Jon Olson

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

Elie Wiesel

It would be very easy for conferences to just fine schools like that. And if a school is being faced with a $100,000 fine, they're going to take the steps necessary to prevent fans from coming onto the court. It's just not that hard to do.

Greg Skidmore

It's a 10-year fight. Our goal is both to prevent the disease and to ensure the population at risk has access to timely medical help.

Gobind Nankani

From our perspective, it should have never been put in the budget. They're only doing it to prevent a filibuster. We're asking senators to stand up to these tactics and vote against the entire bill.

Kristen Cummings

With this investment, we are improving the quality and safety of the rail and preventing rail defects.

James Barnes

There are more effective and better types of windows to prevent people leaving. This is one of the easiest types of window to climb out of.

Richard Bishop

I would rather prevent what happened than issue an apology afterwards.

Donald Payne

There are still unclear points about the U.S. investigation of the cause and steps to prevent similar incidents.

Mamoru Ishihara

The law is about preventing unreasonable vilification that is not in good faith, and we see that as no more controversial than any defamation law.

Islamic Council

The goal of (the safety stand down) was to try to prevent accidents like this. The bottom line is that we're doing everything we can to make sure things like this don't happen.

Mike Rein

It is significant that the countries have agreed on a broad set of principles. But they postponed addressing the hot-potato issues to prevent the talks from collapsing.

Koh Yu Hwan

We can't prevent member states from publishing the data. We do not foresee any communication embargo for each member state.

Barbara Helfferich

Use them wisely, don't let them burn all the way down. Especially don't let them burn when you go to sleep. We use the saying the easiest fire to put out is the one you prevent.'

Toby Miller

Our job is to prevent crime, not to investigate drug trafficking. That's the federal government's responsibility.

Ricardo Rodriguez

We tried to prevent them from getting a lead and getting their crowd into the game, which we didn't do. Our defense was unbelievable in the second half. I think we won this one partially because we've been in big games before.

Scott Rogers

Because the president, not the (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) could authorize or not authorize cross-border operations from Mexican motor carriers, and because FMCSA has no discretion to prevent the entry of Mexican trucks, its EA did not need to consider the environmental effects arising from the entry.

Clarence Thomas

The police want to take part in the people's festival and prevent accidents at the same time.

Mehdi Ahmadi

One of the best things people can do to prevent a wildfire near their home is clearing an area of at least 30 feet so firefighters can access and protect the homes. A lot of people don't picture it as a threat, but it could turn into one.

Mike Drake

While we cannot absolutely prevent a pandemic, we can mitigate its impact.

Sandra Shewry

Everyone's personal belongings are important. But we know he's a community-minded member and a historian. We spent a lot of time doing our best to prevent damage. Some things in his collection were saved.

Greg Schwab

We want to make sure that our young people get immediate help and guidance to prevent anything to this degree, ... Coaches now know who to call, what actions to take, and overall, everybody's better educated.

Lisa Love

It doesn't dissolve blood clots, but it will help prevent them from growing and causing heart attacks.

Christopher Cannon

Nail polish makes nails look good; fluoride varnish helps keep teeth looking good by preventing cavities.

Jane Weintraub

People should firstly protect their own belongs to prevent them from being stolen.

Yang Min

They give you standard advice about birth control. But at least in my experience, they never talked about family planning other than preventing pregnancy.

Beth Espy

The big news will be the G-7. If the markets get a sense that there's somebody out there who will do something to prevent the dollar from falling further, I think people will be relieved.

Michael Gregory

The president's most solemn responsibility is to protect the American people. He is committed to doing everything in his lawful power to prevent attack.

David Almacy

Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.

Dave Pelzer

We want to teach you how to prevent them.

William Stewart

Immediate measures are being put in place to prevent a similar incident happening again and we are carrying out a thorough investigation into what occurred.

David Field

Colonoscopy has proven to be an effective method for preventing colorectal cancer by detecting and removing polyps that have the potential to develop into colorectal cancer as well as finding early cancers that are more effectively treated.

Chad Potteiger

These are mechanisms that prevent lateral movement of the bridge. They lock together and provide stability.

Joe Callahan

Until there is some direct thing done to prevent crime before it happens, it is going to keep happening. If a curfew can prevent crime before it happens, so be it.

William Ross

We're going to prevent what is still going to happen, contract procurement irregularities.

Tamara Faulkner

Bondholders need more details, but anything that would prevent a bankruptcy certainly would be a positive. It's hard to make this situation more complex than it is.

Jon Cartwright

We are really wanting people who do community work of any kind or law enforcement officials. We are honoring law enforcement and the work they do to prevent drug abuse in youths.

Trena Goings

Many factors have conspired to make this cholera outbreak one of the worst ever seen in Angola. But with what we know today there can be no excuse for not doing everything humanly possible to prevent the death toll from climbing much higher.

Richard Veerman

I felt our strength was going to our inside game. In the second half, they were sagging on our guards to prevent the entry pass.

Cameron Watson

We have to ask ourselves ... how could things have been different? ... What could have been done to prevent the magnitude of this tragedy? These are questions that Congress should legitimately ask.

Nancy Pelosi

They were combined into one task force to prevent duplication of effort.

Steve Baldwin

Punish all the guilty parties, whoever they are, and do everything possible to prevent anything of the sort happening again.

Michael Ledeen

Ultimately, you cannot prevent identity theft from happening to you, ... You can only reduce your chances.

Beth Givens

An opportunity to prevent further fighting; to reassure the population; and to ensure the peaceful preparation of the upcoming presidential election.

Jean Arnault

I was in pretty good shape. I don't know how you could prevent it. It seems like it could happen at any time.

Ben Sheets

Because we don't have good evidence of how to prevent colorectal cancer, the importance of early detection through regular screenings should be emphasized for both women and men from age 50 onward.

Marcia Stefanick

We now know that early detection and treatment, including diet and medication, can slow down the progression of kidney disease and its complications and prevent further damage, in some cases.

The Foundation

The scientific and medical definition of abortion is after implantation, ... These birth control pills are used to prevent pregnancy, not to stop it. This is not abortion.

Mary Pendergast

In international law, states are required to prevent acts of torture, and not turn a blind eye to it.

Paul Green

[The intelligence breakdowns that contributed to failure in preventing the Sept. 11 attacks and in assessing Iraq's pre-war weapons arsenal] would encourage me, if anything, ... They need more help.

John Rose

The company has chosen this basic technology. It is inefficient and it does nothing to prevent the vapors from escaping into the community.

Basil Seggos

Sometimes you do evil to prevent greater evil.

Theodore Postol

The two-to-four million children who die every year largely from diarrhea and dirty water will be the beneficiaries of this legislation because we can hopefully prevent some of those deaths.

Geoffrey Dabelko

Our live answer rate is now 95 percent, higher than it ever was. This is a way of improving our support, not [hurting] it. We're not preventing more people from getting in. As Tech Data grows and evolves, tech support has to grow and evolve around that.

Barb Miller

We believe this is one out of many risk factors. ... We don't think it will prevent the disease.

Robert Friedland

The City Commission has blatantly ignored the wishes of over 1,100 voters by attempting to prevent them from voting on a very controversial comprehensive plan.

Bill Pyle

Providing a safe environment for models and preventing exploitation of human beings.

Naomi Campbell

He's demanding to the bitter end. There is no prevent defense in our book. He expects a lot but you want to do it for him. You understand where he's coming from.

Lance Schulters

Practicing general fire safety and preparing and practicing emergency exit plans are essential to aid in preventing fires and fire fatalities.

Teddy Wolfe

This is such a huge disaster we're not going to be able to prevent all of this.

Tamara Faulkner

We give them basic tips on preventing terrorism in their industry.

John Willard

This law will certainly not prevent those cases of sexual abuse from occurring, ... Most sex offenders are not individuals who snatch kids off the street.

Jennifer Miller

Currently, nothing is preventing the fulfillment of our obligations in the area of military and technical cooperation with Iran. This deals with all the agreements made.

Nikolai Spassky

The benefits of traveling in the carpool lane would be lost for everybody and we want to prevent that from happening.

John Goodwin

[Making these changes] is going to prevent people from getting into trouble later in life, having heart attacks and strokes, ... It's mind-boggling the public health benefit this could have if people can motivate themselves to make these changes.

Frank Sacks

I don't think it will prevent it (PC prices falling), but diversification will give them (CompUSA) a stronger market share.

David Toung

We strongly urge the U.S. government to take effective measures to prevent this act from being adopted in the Congress and to prevent it from becoming law.

Yu Shuning

When there is a question of saving souls, or preventing greater harm to souls, We feel the courage to treat with the devil in person.

Pope Pius XI

At the end of the day we know how to reduce and prevent underage drinking. What is lacking is the will to put what we know to work on behalf of our youth.

David Jernigan

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

Hugo Black

You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.

Greg Anderson

The guardrail we are installing now will prevent these types of crossover accidents.

Kris Carson

The bank fully complies with Hong Kong's laws and regulations and has checks in place to prevent money laundering and other illegal activities.

Michael Chan

Removing one female lamprey isn't always a terribly valuable exercise. But to prevent a group from spawning, there is enormous payoff there.

Peter Sorensen

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Our highest priority in the FBI is preventing another terrorist attack. But we're not out there hiding under every rock and peeking around every corner to do it.

Brendan Roberts

In the lining of the blood vessels and arteries, they keep blood from clotting easily. If there's an inflamed area, they tend to prevent the accumulation of blood there, which otherwise could lead to a blood clot.

Donna Kernodle

Even Donald Trump can't prevent something from coming out of someone's mouth.

Richard Courtney

That was not necessary to do what he did to her body. That's a utility to prevent screaming.

Vernon Geberth

No objection in principle to removing people from the country or preventing them coming here if they are not conducive to the public good.

John Denham

We're taking every step possible to prevent a traffic nightmare.

Robert Quigley

Whole grains help digestion, and vitamins should prevent sickness.

Xu Yalin

The FDA decision greatly misleads the American consumer. The American public is entitled to the whole truth and we will do all we can to prevent FDA from keeping this scientific information from the American people.

Steve Wallach

It's not getting better fast enough to prevent a collapse of the system. They just cannot stand it anymore.

Gordon Smith

This is anti-Bluffton and anti-community, ... nothing illegal about it, and nothing we can do to prevent it.

Don Blair

Our recommendation to our customers is to get patches applied within 90 days, because the normal mechanisms should prevent this from getting to your organization.

Russ Cooper

This ad simply lays out the facts about the corruption allegations against DeLay that go way beyond the campaign finance charges he is facing in court. Rep. DeLay cannot intimidate stations to prevent public discussion of the serious charges leveled against him.

Roger Hickey

We lament, despite the efforts that were made 24 hours a day since this started, we have not been able to prevent this abominable homicide.

Jesse Chacon

The real object of the amendment was, not to countenance, much less to advance Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establis.

Joseph Story

The government's success in preventing another catastrophic attack on the American homeland in the 20 months since September 11, 2001 would have been much more difficult, if not impossibly so, without the USA Patriot Act.

Jamie Brown

We're hoping that this sort of local immune response is going to be more effective at preventing infection with the flu virus than the kind of immune response you get with a flu shot.

John Treanor

Our purpose is to find out why things happened, how they could have happened, and what we can do to prevent their ever happening again.

Thomas H. Kean

Some even thought it was going to prevent them from filing bankruptcy. For most people who file consumer bankruptcies, the changes were of little or no effect.

Thomas Flynn

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.

Angelina Grimke

The revision aimed to prevent the selection of a child's gender, when not conducted for medical purposes.

An Jian

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Koizumi's dream of keeping yields low during a recovery will probably fail. His government can't prevent the increase in yields as the economy extends its expansion.

Katsutoshi Inadome

Our goal is to influence peer culture so that we can prevent violence from happening in the first place.

Kathryn Xian

It is not to say we are completely defenseless, because the Israelis have shown you can counter suicide bombings. But shouldn't have unrealistic expectations that you can prevent all attacks.

Bruce Hoffman

In years past, they've actually had to fight fires in back yards of people's houses ... So, this prescribed burn is meant to try to prevent that from happening again.

Mark Nelson

There's nothing you can do to prevent some injuries. He's the type of hitter who has no fear against left-handed pitchers. Not too many guys have the type of swing he has.

Manny Mota

Any money we get will prevent cuts. There's no add. We're just trying to hold on after coming off of three years of cuts.

Brenda Myers

We can't make a recommendation that you could take an aspirin a day to prevent both heart disease and colorectal cancer.

Andrew Chan

Having civil and criminal identity theft penalties in place and continuing to inform Californians on how to prevent the theft of their personal or financial information will help stem this invasive crime.

Charlene Zettel

We struggled to clog up the middle and prevent shots from outside the 18.

Lance Lattin

There is a reason for the rebels to make a move and for the government to try to prevent that.

Suliman Baldo

We are working with Rep. Pence on keeping the focus on preventing child pornography and eliminating any unintended consequences.

Gayle Osterberg

The only option left is to continue our struggle in the National Assembly because we want to avoid violence and prevent confrontation.

Sam Rainsy

The key to stopping those two is playing defense early. You've got to front the players and prevent them from going where they can get off a high percentage shot.

Brian Hicks

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Lord Melbourne

What we're really hoping is the mere threat of being sued under the CSPA (consumer law) will prevent bad behavior.

Sen. Joy Padgett

No threats will prevent us from continuing the struggle to liberate the occupied Arab territories and establish a just and durable peace in the region.

Bashar Assad

It still gives the opportunity to prevent the sale under the appropriate circumstances, though.

Barbara Petito

Awareness can save lives. It is essential that the Congress act to promote educational initiatives to prevent gynecologic cancer deaths. Our coalition of cancer survivors, doctors and those whose lives have been affected by gynecologic cancers will continue to press for the passage of Johanna's Law.

Darrell Issa

We need to take care of that side of the ball to prevent those easy runs from scoring.

Brian Follette

We cannot prevent these agencies from buying tickets when they go on sale.

Nancy Parrott

The American people need to be told what could have been done to prevent 3,000 people from losing their lives.

Curt Weldon

IMS can be seen as a last ditch effort by the providers to prevent their becoming just a bit pipe.

Graham Finnie

To prevent a meeting which has not yet happened and where it is not clear what is to be discussed has got nothing to do with democracy.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan