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This can prevent a person from dying, but it won't raise a dead body, or a monster sewn together from dead bodies.
So it would seem that all our various medical miracles can delay or prevent death but not reverse it.
After being marched to slave forts on the coast, shaved to prevent lice, and branded, they were loaded onto ships bound for the Americas.
This is thought to have evolved through transparent cells covering the opening to prevent infection, allowing the inside of the eye to fill with fluid that optimizes light sensitivity and processing.
It was the neighboring empires who had invaded France trying to restore the monarchy, and prevent the spread of liberty across Europe, twice by the time Napoléon took charge.
But the good news is that a basic understanding of what happens when we communicate can help us prevent miscommunication.
Financial and political factors can also prevent them from traveling by standard routes.
The sudden expansion of the diaphragm would raise air from the stomach, while a closure of the glottis would prevent milk from entering the lungs.
Contraceptives are designed to prevent this process, and they work in three basic ways.
Male and female condoms prevent sperm from coming into contact with the vaginal space.
That barrier is also why they, unlike other contraceptive methods, are able to prevent transmission of certain sexually transmitted diseases.
Scientists also continue to research new methods, such as a male pill that would prevent sperm production.
Social media companies are considering using algorithms to help prevent suicides by flagging posts that contain specific words or phrases.
So if we want to prevent radicalization, we have to keep people going to the mosque.
And of course, medications can also help prevent heart attacks.
When bacteria digest fiber, they produce short chain fatty acids that nourish the gut barrier, improve immune function, and can help prevent inflammation, which reduces the risk of cancer.
But if the capillary action is strong enough to overcome gravity and draw the water up, it would also prevent it from falling back into the bowl.
And what are the limits of my knowledge that prevent me from understanding this new viral pathway?"
Therefore, to prevent the process from being used as a political weapon, the Constitution specifies that an official can only be impeached for treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
Theoretically, the U.S. government is already designed to prevent abuses of power, limiting different branches through a system of checks and balances, term limits, and free elections.
So every year, we set aside resources to prevent poaching, hunting, mining and pollution in our parks, and resources to help communities who live in those parks manage their forests, adapt to climate change, and lead better lives while continuing to live in harmony with Mother Nature.
But second, those same knowledge gaps also prevent them from catching their errors.
We could prevent 59 percent of sexual assaults just by stopping repeat perpetrators earlier on.
The corporate gun lobby has spent billions of dollars blocking the CDC from doing research into the public health epidemic of gun violence; blocking pediatricians from talking to parents about the dangers of guns in the home; blocking smart-gun technology and other technology that would prevent kids from firing parents' guns and would save lives.
While there was nothing we could do to prevent the tragedy, I wanted to find a way for Thomas's brief life to have some kind of positive impact.
They will actually physically prevent the tumor from entering other organs, controlling the metastasis.
It's looking like all attempts to control or prevent sex work from happening makes things more dangerous for people selling sex.
And in the same way many of us are now wearing sensors that detect our heart rate, our respiration, our genes, on the hopes that this may help us prevent diseases, we can ask whether monitoring and analyzing the words we speak, we tweet, we email, we write, can tell us ahead of time whether something may go wrong with our minds.
If we were to extrapolate that three point drop to every single black man with high blood pressure in America, we would prevent 800 heart attacks, 500 strokes and 900 deaths from high blood pressure in just one year.
So in the absence of knowing that knowledge, we cannot prevent that mom, that family, or other families in that community from suffering the same tragedy.
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