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As Robert Schuman promised when he conceived the idea of a European Community, integration has prevented the recurrence of war between Germany and France.
Janissaries were not allowed to marry or to own property, which prevented them from developing loyalties outside of the imperial court.
Private entrepreneurs felt secure not because the government was prevented from expropriating them, but because, sharing in the profits, it had no interest in expropriating them.
But demography is not destiny: a small population has not prevented Singapore from sustaining a hyper-competitive economy.
But the danger that any conflict could escalate into a nuclear confrontation prevented reckless and dangerous behavior on both sides on more than one occasion.
Most Israelis – certainly the current government – are convinced that Palestinians must be prevented by force from killing Jews.
The next nine months will decide if this grim scenario can still be prevented.
What has prevented the eruption of WTO-compliant trade wars has been the changed structure of the world economy, which has created strong anti-protectionist interests.
But those who have enough to spend on luxuries, yet fail to share even a tiny fraction of their income with the poor, must bear some responsibility for the deaths they could have prevented.
The right response to past injustices is to recover sovereignty in a Europe where the powerful – whether German bankers or American smartphone makers – are prevented from preying on the weak.
Aylan Kurdi’s aunt – Tima Kurdi, a resident of Vancouver – had been trying to get him and his family into Canada, but Harper’s refugee decisions had prevented it.
The fact that the party leader Mr.Erdogan was prevented through technicalities from becoming a deputy in the Parliament and thus Prime Minister makes the maintenance of this balance even more tricky.
During the Cold War, the US had been even more vulnerable, in technological terms, to a nuclear attack from Russia, but “mutual assured destruction” prevented the worst by keeping vulnerability more or less symmetrical.
But overall stability has not prevented cracks from emerging in more contentious areas.
In retrospect, one might ask whether it was NATO or US economic and political support that prevented Western Europe from embracing communism.
Given the high price Libyans have paid, those scenarios should be prevented rather than cured.
The order has also prevented many more people from leaving for the US.
Finding the Policy ExitNEW YORK – There is a general consensus that the massive monetary easing, fiscal stimulus, and support of the financial system undertaken by governments and central banks around the world prevented the deep recession of 2008-2009 from devolving into Great Depression II.
Let’s be clear: Trump’s proposed aid cuts would cause many people to die, and many more to face additional suffering from illness and disability that could have been prevented with better health care.
And the trickery began long before voting day, with nine opposition parties prevented from even appearing on the ballot.
Surplus countries would not be prevented from spending their money freely, but they would not be permitted to hoard it.
Meanwhile, sound monetary policy, guided by a series of talented central bankers (whose independence is enshrined in Chile’s constitution), has prevented inflation and kept long-term rates relatively low.
That has not prevented these countries from taking a dominant position in the market for chocolate and computers, respectively.
Intensive animal husbandry procedures that place billions of poultry and swine in close proximity to humans, combined with unsanitary conditions, poverty, and grossly inadequate public health infrastructure of all kinds, make it unlikely that a pandemic can be prevented or contained at the source.
If this law is used to ensure that politically loyal judges preside over cases brought against opposition politicians, in order to convict them on trumped-up charges, these officials will be prevented from running in the 2019 parliamentary and 2020 presidential elections.
In December 1999, mass protests now known as the “Battle in Seattle” prevented a World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference from finishing its proceedings.
An approved settlement would mark the end of a complex and divisive legal fight that for too long has prevented Brazil’s leaders from putting a legacy of failed economic initiatives behind them.
Japan crossed that line in the 1990’s, as its corporate zombies prevented the painful but necessary adjustments in its post-bubble economy.
A recent series on neonatal issues in the British science journal Lancet estimated that between 41% and 72% of neonatal deaths could be prevented if simple interventions were provided effectively where they are needed most.
Assuming the responsibilities that have long belonged to men requires that women let go of the tasks that have prevented them from advancing beyond low-ranking positions.
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