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The second position is precisely the opposite: immigration should be prevented by all available means.
Nazi propaganda blamed Jews for everything: Germany’s defeat in World War I, universal moral values that prevented the Aryan race from exerting its superiority, and both communism and capitalism.
A shameful legacy of President Menem's government in the 1990s was that it prevented the investigation and prosecution of serious improprieties, corruption, illegal arms sales, and major terrorist acts.
In times of crisis it had a negative impact – although integration has prevented currency collapse or the write-off of national debt, occurrences that we have witnessed during previous crises in emerging markets.
Mass education, progressive taxation, and social-welfare benefits have not prevented increasing inequality.
But the alleged shooter had never been formally diagnosed as mentally ill, so such targeted laws would not have prevented him from obtaining a gun.
Such measures might have prevented the Arizona shootings.
Placing him immediately on a “watch list” for weapons – frequently updated under strengthened laws – could have prevented him from purchasing the gun and ammunition he subsequently used.
Globally, an estimated 2-3 million child deaths and 600,000 adult deaths are prevented annually through immunization.
Historically, most political borders were defensive lines – places where one country’s army prevented the movement of another country’s army.
Four wars – in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo – had to be fought and a fifth one – in Macedonia – had to be prevented at the last minute by NATO and the EU in order to put violent Serb nationalism in its place.
For one thing, the RBI has prevented the rupee from falling further, thereby averting the risk of a vicious circle of capital outflows and currency depreciation.
Objections from the Russian Orthodox Church, however, prevented the pope from accepting invitations to visit Moscow.
And yet headlines seeming to portend political instability and chaos have not prevented stock markets from soaring.
If, over the past decade or two, affluent countries had done more to assist Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, the current Ebola outbreak could have been minimized, if not prevented.
While the US presence in the region has so far prevented its numerous conflicts and rivalries from intensifying, sources of uncertainty are multiplying.
Such a tax would not have prevented the US-China trade imbalance.
As a result, China faces the risk of falling into the “middle-income trap,” which has prevented many other countries from achieving advanced-economy status.
Adherence to this doctrine prevented postwar German policymakers from being tempted by excesses like those of Hitler and Stalin.
That’s why, if crowdfunding is to reach its global potential, crowdphishing must be prevented from the outset.
Instead, long-time residents have been prevented from returning to their homes.
Kennedy’s pragmatism prevented World War III.
Their received ideas about North Korea prevented them from recognizing a fast-changing political reality.
If a disaster is unacceptable, then, no matter how uncertain the likelihood of its occurrence, it must be prevented.
More than 250,000 Tamil civilians were kept in virtual internment camps long after the end of hostilities and prevented from exercising their civil rights or returning to their homes.
Deep recessions, high real interest rates, and financial chaos were all on the menu--although the then US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, the IMF's Michel Camdessus and Stanley Fischer, and many Mexican and East Asian politicians and central bankers skillfully prevented at least the first two crises from becoming much more destructive than they might have been.
Highlighting the vulnerability of nuclear power to environmental change or extreme-weather patterns, in 2006 plant operators in Western Europe also secured exemptions from regulations that would have prevented them from discharging overheated water into natural ecosystems, affecting fisheries.
Nevertheless, this enforced fiscal discipline, combined with individual states’ own internal budgetary procedures, has prevented a large scale state-level fiscal crisis from occurring in the US since the Great Depression.
As a result, we have prevented 5.5 million deaths, and we aim to immunize a further 245 million children and save five million more lives by 2015.
As with Syria now, Russian support for the Serbian side two decades ago was one of the factors that prevented military intervention.
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