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We work with a lot of people who have amazing things that they may have cared for lovingly, but there is still damage that could have been prevented. I think this workshop will be a great way to keep things around for (generations).

Kelly Bastone

That could have prevented the terrorist attack. But they weren't fulfilled.

Alexander Torshin

In this country, we don't dare to pronounce the word 'Arab' or 'black,' ... Because of political blindness, we're prevented from thinking progress is possible. The multicolored composition will become commonplace in businesses and communities once we're no longer afraid of describing French of color.

Azouz Begag

We believe that the terrorists will strike again. If they do, and these reforms that might have prevented such an attack have not been implemented, what will our excuses be?

Thomas H. Kean

They immediately approached the bedside. They responded quickly and prevented further harm to the patient.

Dan Mcfadden

We were having difficulty recruiting qualified police officers, and we felt this policy may have prevented some good candidates from applying.

Rebecca Jones

Child abuse is not an isolated problem. It affects each of us and it is only through each of us that child abuse can be prevented.

Shari Pulliam

We hope when people understand more about what the disease is and how it can be prevented that their concerns will have been allayed.

Mark Feinberg

The prospect of no election is to me, in my humble opinion a national disaster waiting to happen, but which can be prevented or remedied by congressional action.

Fidel Ramos

He has been taking it on the advice of a dermatologist. And he has had very good success and he feels it has helped hair growth and prevented further loss, and he has taken it with my knowledge.

David Mulder

I was suddenly surprised by a man grabbing me from the back, with his arm across my throat, which prevented me from crying out.

Jean Wagner

The regulations have prevented rural patients with no caregiver at home from getting specialized attention. Instead, they have been placed in nursing homes and other facilities not equipped to meet this unique need.

Roger Wicker

Courtney made some great plays for us tonight. She chased down two of them that probably prevented runs.

Rodney Taylor

We have no doubt that the elections in Belarus were not free. There are some 7,000 polling stations in Belarus, but representatives of opposition candidates were allowed to be election commission members at only three stations, which prevented them from monitoring the vote.

Vladimir Ryzhkov

The better practice would have been to make boundaries clear from the beginning and not accept gifts. That would have prevented this unhealthy attachment from forming. By the time she [Head] tried to set boundaries, it was too late.

Scott Holmes

Nobody disputes 9/11, ... They would do it again if not prevented.

Robin Hayes

This is part of our ongoing work with the Army Corps, ... It's been reported that some of these cases may have prevented things like the modernization of levees. This is part of our normal work, to determine what has happened.

Bill Holbrook

The last two games we've really buckled down and prevented more shots than we've been used to the past couple of months. That's nice to see the guys coming back and helping out.

David Leneveu

If the company had followed OSHA regulations, this tragic accident could have been prevented. Correcting hazards observed during this investigation will make the facility safer for employees.

Ken Atha

This department's system of checks and balances has corrected this ongoing mistake and prevented its perpetuation.

Jim Zito

Measles can be effectively prevented by inoculation. This high incidence reflects the poor efforts by local governments in recent years.

Qi Xiaoqiu

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Flannery O'Connor

The situation is horrific. The job is colossal. One disaster occurred Saturday that couldn't be prevented but a second disaster must be.

Jan Vandemoortele

Our security forces did their job and prevented something from happening that was much worse.

Jim Waters

If the instance of Ramadan is any indication, we are concerned about scholars ... who may be prevented from coming to speak with us, to meet with us.

Barbara Deconcini

We have to break the siege on Jerusalem. There is a battle for Jerusalem. Sharon has frozen the building here and prevented the creation of a greater Jerusalem. Instead, he is enabling the creation of a greater Palestine.

Binyamin Netanyahu

It would be very disappointed if tummy taps or whacks in the guts prevented players from playing in grand finals.

Grant Thomas

It's only with that kind of full accounting that you can have any assurance that the practice has stopped and will be prevented.

Kate Martin

There were 22 interventions during that little girl's six years of life, and none of it prevented her death. I think the system was not functioning in those days.

Nicholas Scoppetta

There was no smoking gun. I really don't know anything that they could have done out of their normal routine that could have prevented this.

Knox Williams

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

They did a good job of making adjustments in the second half. They doubled Amanda and prevented her from getting any good looks at the basket or making any drives to the basket.

Fred Thacher

They would have been rendered helpless from the smoke, ... We are plagued by the loss of life that possibly -- possibly -- could have been prevented.

Roger Johnson

History may tell, or we may never know, if their actions on that morning saved lives, or they prevented potential terrorist acts, but I can say absolutely without a doubt that their actions eliminated that possibility.

Michael Mccormick

We are extremely concerned, since the people are terrified. We are absolutely sure that it's not that the people turned around themselves. They are being forcible prevented from leaving Kosovo.

Kris Janowski

What would have prevented him from hitting him if that was the case? If he was trying to hit him, he would have ran right over him.

Charmel Warren

He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.

Henry Fielding

We prevented both some brain and some behavioral changes that one normally sees in these rats when they hit 15 months of age.

Jim Joseph

An atmosphere of racial tension in the jury room prevented meaningful deliberations from taking place.

Susan Roberts

Just like in our fire prevention bureau, we can't tell how many fires we prevented but we do know by going out there and doing some of these steps that they did help reduce some of the effects of what we had going on.

Dale Simpson

Seventy percent of birth defects could be prevented, treated or ameliorated if the recommendations in this report are adopted.

Christopher P. Howson

If you're creating a second individual or second embryo for spare parts or for storage for future use, that's a different issue, ... But most of those kind of abuses would have to be very intentionally orchestrated and could easily be prevented.

Mark Sauer

We estimate in the report that if the recommendations that we give were implemented, up to 70 percent of mortality and disability from birth defects could be prevented, treated, or ameliorated.

Christopher P. Howson

Their efforts to put suicide bombers in the center of Israel are always ongoing. This temporary checkpoint prevented a heavier catastrophe.

Islamic Jihad

The key here is that we want to make sure students aren't prevented from applying or choose not to apply because of a sense they don't have the ability to pay. We want them to apply, and we'll meet their costs.

Richard Shaw

No one could prove to you that Sarbanes-Oxley would have prevented a dedicated crook from being able to hide something beyond the view of the balance sheet and accountants.

Jack Coffee

We know it might not have prevented every one, but it would have made a significant difference in the number of outages we had in January.

Mary Ingarra

Their fast action prevented a horrible situation.

Hannah Watson

We always think about the rights of the terrorists. But if there is an attack that you could have prevented, you also have to be able to look into the eyes of the relatives.

August Hanning

This could have been prevented by following safety procedures for entry into an environment where the employee was working.

Luis Santiago

He continues to find ways to make an impact on the issues and causes that he cares about. Being out of office hasn't prevented him from doing that.

Mike Feldman

It was especially trying on both counts because one was an accident and it might have been prevented, and that was frustrating. On the other side, losing two people was just devastating anyway you look at it. I think those were the lowest points the guard experienced this year.

Capt. April Conway

People go through a bad event like that, and they want to feel it was something it couldn't be prevented. In a lot of cases, it can be prevented.

Mark Powell

If we can get a gun or two or three off the streets, in terms of human misery prevented, the gains are immeasurable.

Michael Bryant

The fact is, these Marines have probably prevented another war with the mission they've accomplished.

Anthony Jackson

It's like a 9-11 catastrophe happening everyday worldwide, but this is a tragedy that can be prevented.

Greg Allgood

I have ... so far prevented the lighting of a fire in this region which would be hard to extinguish, ... but all should know that a very great and wide danger is quite near.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

We want to determine if this can be prevented.

Gabrielle Demarco

Ceres is an embryonic planet, ... Gravitational perturbations from Jupiter billions of years ago prevented Ceres from accreting more material to become a full-fledged planet.

Lucy Mcfadden

UNC Wilmington did a good job of making it a half-court game, which prevented us from converting easy shots.

Ron Everhart

Further work is also needed to determine how the increased firing in the uninjured fine fibers could be prevented in order to alleviate the ongoing pain.

Sally Lawson

Most asthma attacks can be prevented.

Marjorie Crabtree

These two incidents in the jail could have been prevented.

Rick Dunlap

We will investigate this vigorously to see how this could have been prevented, if at all.

Frank Penela

We were pleasantly surprised. We are very pleased. My dad was very moved, even to tears. We just feel that [Hernandez] was negligent. This could have been prevented.

Marilyn Shoemaker

All this could be prevented by just keeping the river just flowing like it should be.

Glen Keo

They prevented us from getting that first goal. Had we have gotten that maybe we would have got a little confidence and maybe come back.

Patrick White

These can only be prevented with inhaled steroids. Nothing else has been shown to be as effective.

Robert Nathan

It would be unhealthy for the Fed to get bogged down in an internal debate about the merits and demerits of inflation targeting if it prevented.

Tom Schlesinger

Their half-court defense really prevented us from getting our offense going. Our steals were effective but so was their rebounding. I was pleased with our defense though, as we contested shots and were all over the basketball with pressure.

Adrian Wiggins

In December, what (Albertsons) meant when they said they were no longer for sale is that they are no longer actively seeking bids. That of course doesn't mean any entity is prevented from bidding.

Harry White

There is a staggering number of animals put down each year. We would like to see this prevented. We want to curb the overpopulation of unwanted animals and we do a good job in our county compared to the national figures.

Harry Wells

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

Conrad Veidt

Piracy can be completely prevented when the entire industry goes digital.

Senthil Kumar

Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Martha Gellhorn

It's important for this administration to not just address the appropriateness of the shooting but to look to other policy or training that would have prevented them from getting to this point.

Rafael Goyeneche

We do have an option agreement with the reverend, which he agreed to, he signed, and all we wanted to do was exercise our option under that agreement. And we have been prevented from doing that.

Terry Jones

We have a great financial aid department ... that makes sure that no student is prevented from attending college based on money issues.

Ernst Roberts

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

Ernest Bevin

[McComb] practiced medicine in a way that only Dr. Frankenstein would practice medicine. He was reckless and arrogant, and it could have been prevented.

Eric Kaplan

It was recklessness and arrogance, and it could have been prevented.

Eric Kaplan

The states who prevented a force being deployed are an international scandal... an international disgrace, ... How can I tell them the Security Council doesn't see... doesn't listen... doesn't care.

Emma Bonino

While they are not being prevented, [Article 6,] Section 22 of the Constitution provides that they have to get the authority from the President through their department heads.

Eduardo Ermita