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These challenges are particularly acute in the European Union, where policy paralysis has prevented governments from fully implementing the reforms needed to overcome the financial crisis that began a decade ago.
Under Israeli occupation, obstacles hindering the normal development of tourism in Palestine have prevented thousands of people from experiencing what Bethlehem has to offer.
If global salt consumption were reduced to the recommended level, an estimated 2.5 million deaths – equivalent to the population of Jamaica – could be prevented every year.
What prevented Chernomyrdin from becoming the prime-minister again?
Barriers like geographical distance and low resources, which have long prevented billions of people from getting the care they need, are much easier to overcome in the digital age.
Of course, this tradition has not always prevented violence, most notoriously in the killings that followed the 1966 coup against President Sukarno.
Downturns, of course, can never be fully prevented.
The argument seems simple: only a massive dose of government spending and massive central-bank support for the financial system prevented a slide into a second Great Depression, so more of the same medicine is now needed to prevent a slide back into recession.
The FARC insurgency was a permanent source of economic uncertainty, and it prevented the government from building badly needed infrastructure – especially for communication technologies – across the country’s vast, difficult terrain.
What if no fog prevented the safe landing at Smolensk airport?
More than ever, the EU must combine greater stability, financial transfers, and mutual solidarity if the entire European project is to be prevented from collapsing under the weight of the ongoing sovereign-debt crisis.
When in 1991 Argentina tied the peso to the dollar and prevented its central bank from printing pesos freely, the world applauded - with good reason.
Such a clash must be prevented.
Moreover, just as Ralph Nader’s candidacy (and the US Supreme Court) prevented Al Gore from defeating George W. Bush in 2000, one must recognize that Okonjo-Iweala was undercut by the candidacy of José Antonio Ocampo, a former finance minister of Colombia, who was backed by Brazil.
By prohibiting exchange of RMB abroad, the central authorities prevented the currency fluctuations that in recent years wreaked havoc in other developing nations.
Yet, during the past two centuries this has not prevented them from fearing the Russians, patronizing the Bulgarians, and envying the Greeks.
In fact, the certainty of a US veto prevented Palestine’s bid for full UN membership from reaching the Security Council last year.
For example, NATO and EU diplomacy prevented ethnic conflict in Macedonia from erupting into a crisis.
Our security services’ actions undoubtedly prevented other serious attacks.
Neutrality prevented them from becoming candidates so long as the Soviet Union existed.
All agree that diminution of the eurozone must be prevented if the threat of its dissolution is to be avoided.
The economic boom under President Jiang Zemin and his successor, Hu Jintao, which channeled youthful revolt into entrepreneurship and professional success, was possible only because Deng prevented the Party leadership from fracturing during the student protests of the late 1980’s and the conservative backlash of the early 1990’s.
But Morocco has prevented it from ever taking place.
In the former, the prospect of a Security Council veto prevented action, and a regional organization (NATO) acted without UN authorization.
For a long time, China prevented the renminbi from becoming overvalued – and this was good policy, as Subramanian’s research confirms.
Before a crisis, they resist regulations and oppose government investment and planning; afterwards, they demand – and receive – billions of dollars to compensate them for their losses, even those that could easily have been prevented.
Up to 90% of those deaths, which were concentrated in just 12 countries, could have been prevented through quality antenatal, obstetric, and perinatal care.
America's commitment to a rapid return to the gold standard prevented an increase in the dollar price of gold, so deflation ensued.
When the crash came in 2008, massive fiscal and monetary expansion prevented US consumption from collapsing.
The indispensable aide is only too happy to reveal some dramatic story about how he saved the day, devised some particularly ingenious idea, or prevented some terrible mistake.
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