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The moment people stop believing that the demagogues can be prevented from doing their worst is the moment we can be sure that it is already too late.
Screening travelers from affected regions may have prevented significant epidemics elsewhere.
If France and China were prevented from completing their series, they would either refuse to sign a test-ban treaty altogether or insist on such major exceptions that the treaty would be devalued, to the delight of the test lobby in the United States and elsewhere and the frustrations of all those who want to stop the bomb from spreading.
And women in developing countries are more likely to work in an inefficient informal economy; to be prevented by discriminatory laws from owning land; and to face bias in establishing, developing, and financing their own businesses.
In purely military terms, the problem is not of the first order: Frances’ absence from NATO’s command structure has not prevented effective, if sometime complicated, cooperation in coalition operations as in the Gulf, or Bosnia.
On the question of Iran’s nuclear weapons capability, Americans and Europeans also fundamentally agree: it should be prevented.
As a Venezuelan who is seeing his country collapse at this very moment, I do not doubt that there have been many instances in human history during which those in power have prevented progress.
Indeed, it is now clear that governments prevented a full-scale collapse of the financial system in 2008 by transforming toxic private debt into public debt.
First, it prevented the collapse of the banking system.
The Chinese ship containing arms for the reviled Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe is finally headed home after protests and global condemnation prevented it from delivering its cargo.
Back then, the illusion of costless progress prevented the root and branch reform Colombia so desperately needed.
So, for many, seeing images of a well-run voting process (the ink stains prevented voters from casting more than one ballot) was proof enough that things had changed.
True, historical taboos and a booming economy have so far prevented popular discontent from surging into the corridors of power.
But following Labour’s victory in 1997, Prime Minister Tony Blair was keen to bring the euro to Britain and was prevented only by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown’s tactical procrastination and eventual refusal to give up the pound.
China’s India Land GrabNEW DELHI – Stoking tensions with Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines over islands in the South and East China Seas has not prevented an increasingly assertive China from opening yet another front by staging a military incursion across the disputed, forbidding Himalayan frontier.
But China’s adherence to WTO rules on foreign investment prevented it from participating in TISA negotiations, ultimately impeding its trade and investment ambitions.
Fortunately, he was willing to reverse his decision and cut the tightening cycle short (over the protests of many on the policy-setting Federal Open Markets Committee) – a move that prevented the US economy from slipping back into recession.
It also failed to adopt precision machinery that depended on electricity, which prevented it from producing machined components for use in assembling typewriters, cash registers, and motor vehicles.
Indeed, if peace is to come to Ukraine – and if Putin is to be prevented from using the same strategy elsewhere – the world must let him know that some lines may never be crossed.
Meanwhile, Obama, too, claims credit for the strong economy, arguing that his policies prevented a far worse downturn following the 2008 financial crisis.
This discrepancy has prevented strategic bilateral cooperation on global governance issues.
If so, they may have prevented the implementation of more draconian anti-terrorist measures – thus enabling the current debate.
According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), despite this colossal spending, America lags behind Japan and several European countries in standard measures of health: infant mortality, life expectancy at birth, and deaths that could have been prevented by appropriate medical care.
She had been executing a political strategy that prevented the Brexit debate from being reopened.
But the specter of a bi-national state locked in a permanent civil war has so far prevented the relevant actors from fully giving up.
The text of the Lisbon treaty is studiously vague in its job description of the president’s role – an approach that prevented trouble for treaty’s framers, but merely postponed disagreement.
The remittances of Italian seasonal laborers in Argentina prevented backward rural villages in southern Italy from slipping into grinding poverty.
The scandal at Enron, in its final days, was that management prevented employees from selling their Enron shares while executives unloaded their own shares.
Then there are those who believe that EU enlargement has prevented greater “deepening,” and who, with scant regard for the past or the future, argue that pursuing the latter requires abandoning the former.
But this goal cannot be achieved unless the construction industry is prevented from dictating low-income-housing policy.
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