Prevent
in example sentence
He pasted tarps over the windows of his home to
prevent
prying eyes during the long Icelandic winter.
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For me personally, the most critical lesson of all is this: Local commitment to peace is all-important, but it is often not enough to
prevent
or end violence.
I don't know how to
prevent
that, but I'm at least going to use my good offices to get you folks together to come up with a response."
So he crashes down, and he gets slightly injured, but this does not
prevent
him from jumping up and then starting to jump up and down on his bike and curse violently.
Instead of "go anywhere, do anything you want," we actually created a regime that required prior assessment of where you're going and a duty to
prevent
significant harm.
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