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Hostility between the United States and China, however,
prevented
students like me from actually traveling there.
Even Europe is not immune: a civilian aircraft was shot down over a conflict zone in eastern Ukraine, and officials were
prevented
from investigating.
China’s strategic gains from a successful military intervention would include not only control of what happens on the Korean Peninsula, where it presumably would be able to establish military bases, but also regional gratitude for having
prevented
a catastrophic war.
The fact that the Fed responded quickly
prevented
the 2001 recession from worsening.
Unintended consequences cannot always be
prevented.
And could it have been
prevented
with a slower, more gradual change in the national story?
Most economists would concede that the collective leadership model has
prevented
disasters.
Annan’s mediation undoubtedly
prevented
the loss of more lives.
In fact, the government’s approach served only to exacerbate Brazil’s problems of low capital investment, weak competition, and relatively little innovation – problems that have
prevented
the country from achieving any gains in total factor productivity in the last two decades.
Bear failed in 2008 as its mounting real-estate losses
prevented
it from quickly rolling over its repo debt, which made up fully one-quarter of its balance sheet.
Doing that
prevented
QE’s opponents from voting against the majority FOMC position, something that would suggest policy disarray at the Fed and a lack of respect for Bernanke.
But the Bank of England’s direct intervention
prevented
these images from gaining a foothold on our collective psychology.
Children who are
prevented
from playing in dirt grow up with compromised immune systems.
Then, as now, many who took part in prostitution became victims of violence, were coerced into the trade, or were
prevented
from escaping it.
The break
prevented
the international community from expressing its voice as the country undertook truly irresponsible policies, spending in 2012 as if the price of oil was $197 a barrel, not $107.
Moreover, recession insurance might, in contrast to fiscal policy, impose no costs on the government, for if it stimulates confidence, then the risk being insured against is
prevented.
Many countries are
prevented
from trading their way out of poverty by the high tariff barriers, domestic subsidies, and other protections enjoyed by their rich-country competitors.
A race to the bottom on corporate taxation can be
prevented
only by imposing a minimum rate on any corporation that engages in business in the US.
As the watchdog organization Transparency International reminds us, corruption exposed is in many cases corruption
prevented.
Yet the Global Fund proved the doubters wrong: More money
prevented
millions of deaths from AIDS, TB, and malaria.
Most important, of course, is the need to prevent the suffering caused by the crimes that lead to international prosecutions; and when those crimes cannot be prevented, we must provide some comfort and redress to the victims and their families by doing justice.
Several factors have
prevented
high oil prices from affecting the demand for petroleum products in the US in recent years, such as increased government spending, low interest rates, tax breaks, and an increase in real incomes.
The Dodd-Frank Act did succeed in putting the OTS out of its misery, but jealous congressional oversight committees have
prevented
a merger of the SEC and CFTC, and nothing has been done to rationalize banking supervision.
Africa’s leaders in the public and private sectors have an opportunity to clear the policy bottlenecks that have
prevented
the commercialization of African inventions, especially in large economies such as Nigeria, South Africa (which has a more advanced innovation policy than the rest of the continent), and Kenya.
In 1939, it appeared that Poland feared the Soviet Union more than it feared Nazi GermanyNo one can know whether Poland would have avoided German occupation had it agreed to the Red Army’s entry in the event of an invasion, much less whether WWII or the Holocaust might have been
prevented.
So far, however, austerity has
prevented
sufficient public financing.
First, a trillion-dollar bailout package in May
prevented
an immediate default by Greece and a break-up of the eurozone.
Legal and practical factors, as well as some countries’ political resistance to delegating economic governance to multilateral institutions, have
prevented
the SDR from meeting its creators’ modest expectations, let alone the grand role of a truly global reserve currency that anchors the cooperative functioning of a growth-oriented global economy.
This indicates that for every 100,000 individuals suffering a heart attack or death from heart disease each year, 19,000 of these would be
prevented
if the average trans fat intake were reduced by approximately 40 calories/day.
Most Latin American countries’ recent adjustments, moreover, have
prevented
their budget positions and current-account deficits from becoming sources of vulnerability.
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