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European police and security agencies have prevented many terrorist attacks.
As a habitual contrarian, I pose the question because almost everyone seems to believe that it would, and that it must be prevented at all costs.
A combination of financial-sector recapitalization and rapid expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet prevented a complete credit lockup.
Only the presence of the ECC, particularly its international commissioners, and the hope that it would ensure at least some fairness into the process prevented the electoral controversy from erupting into open conflict.
Workers would be prevented from moving.
They were the so-called back-stabbers who prevented Germany from being great again.
That commonsense alone prevented catastrophe, civil war, and conflicts among the former Soviet republics.
Although the Czech Republic will assume the EU presidency in January, this has not prevented the French President from convening a new EU summit under Sarkozy’s leadership in the first half of 2009.
World leaders should recognize that a larger investment in reconstruction, together with a comprehensive and well-balanced strategy to ensure accountability and appropriate policies for lawful employment, could have prevented these vast military expenditures, both in Iraq since 2006 and in Afghanistan since the Taliban government was ousted in 2001.
Even though almost 13 years is an inexcusably long time, the war crimes indictment kept Karadzic on the run and prevented him from resurfacing.
And political pressure from the United States prevented its weak government from renegotiating a bailout program that even the International Monetary Fund knew was unrealistic.
The ICC has faced challenges in recent months, including the collapse of its case against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and a stalemate at the United Nations Security Council that has prevented an investigation into mass criminality in Syria.
Ninety-nine percent of the maternal deaths and 80% of the newborn deaths can be prevented with the right care.
Almost all of those deaths could have been prevented.
When he was awarded the Nobel in 2010, the Chinese authorities not only prevented his family from traveling to Oslo to accept the prize; they placed his wife under house arrest.
Worst of all, some of us were condemned to bans that silencedus, bans that prevented us from writing at all.
We defended communities and minorities from the jihadists’ wrath, and prevented them from enslaving more women and stoning more dissidents than they did.
Should he have been prevented from making that choice?
Using conservative assumptions, it estimates that, had South Africa’s government provided the appropriate drugs, both to AIDS patients and to pregnant women who were at risk of infecting their babies, it would have prevented 365,000 premature deaths.
So, rather than talking about the US debt ceiling, let us think instead about all of the things that the debt-ceiling impasse has prevented the US government from doing during the past six months – all of the useful policies that might have been debated and enacted, but were not.
The UN appeal for South Sudan, which faces famine after fighting prevented farmers from planting crops, has reached only half of its funding target.
MIT economists tend to espouse the opposite: fairness is important, the real world is unacceptably unfair, and government failure can be prevented by good institutional design, including democracy.
Much of this was foreseeable, and could have been prevented if those who should have known better had not remained passive.
It has dealt with a new generation of security threats on its own territory – most prominently Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev – and prevented them from turning into a global force like al-Qaeda.
Two out of the three most important TV channels (state channels from the formal point of view but are really controlled by the "family" around President Yeltsin, including the family oligarchs like Boris Berezovsky), transmitting across all Russia, almost completely prevented the two main opposition parties -- the Primakov and Luzhkov "Fatherland-All Russia”(OVR) and Yavlinskiy's "Yabloko" from getting their message broadcast.
No sooner had Hamas agreed to enter into a government of national unity than the military wing engineered the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier, which prevented such a government from being formed by provoking a heavy-handed Israeli military response.
Add to that clamorous politicians and growing demands on a national economic pie that decades of protectionism prevented from growing.
In Syria, after the start of the uprising in 2011, the government prevented the WHO from operating in areas outside its control.
It is true that coalition politics prevented decisive action, with a railway minister being summarily dismissed by his own party leader – whom the UPA was politically unable to confront – after attempting to raise fares.
While the current agenda – centered on the so-called Millennium Development Goals – has produced significant successes, its failure to emphasize such cost-benefit analyses has prevented practitioners from fully optimizing limited resources.
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