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The problem is that, as long as violence prevents moderate forces from restoring local services and administrative structures, people’s capacity for resistance will remain weak.
But nothing prevents the IMF from demanding policy commitments from regional bodies when lending to their member governments.
Populist politicians argue that the EU’s Stability and Growth Pact prevents the government from stimulating demand, and thus job creation.
While Museveni and his cronies preside over what one American diplomat has called an “all-you-can-eat corruption buffet,” the West’s continued support for him prevents the region’s people from controlling their own destinies and fuels further crises.
For another, it prevents developing countries from reaping the full benefits of rising commodity prices, though they gain no protection from price downturns.
Fear prevents honest debate of issues.
US President Barack Obama, who has expressed deep concern about the overthrow of Morsi, is perhaps the only leader able to mediate in such a situation and work for a consensus solution that prevents a civil war.
Although the US does well on the traditional measures of power, those measures increasingly fail to capture much of what defines world politics, which, owing to the information revolution and globalization, is changing in a way that prevents Americans from achieving all their international goals by acting alone.
This prevents potentially positive matching of the skills needed by employers and the available supply of them.
Regulation prevents wholesalers from branching downstream into retailing, and vice versa.
But relying on the wrong model prevents central bankers from contributing what they can – and may even make a bad situation worse.
Indeed, Russia’s law effectively prevents NCOs not under state control from carrying out any activities in the country.
Poor-quality basic education prevents students from reaping the benefits of subsequent education and skills training.
Of course, when it comes to immigration and human rights, the internationalist ideological tradition of socialism prevents extreme nationalist and racist discourse on the far left.
While nothing prevents Xi from retaining a party title, such as general secretary, he will need to amend the constitution if he wants to remain China’s head of state.
Russia's political system, indeed, is not what prevents the country from moving forward, and it never has been.
The freedom of money, financial markets, and people to move – and thus to escape regulation and taxation – might be an acceptable, even constructive, brake on excessive official intervention, but not if a deregulatory race to the bottom prevents adoption of needed ethical and prudential standards.
These two very different sources of inequality are often conflated, which prevents clear thinking on either one.
Nothing, however, prevents smaller groups of member states from aiming at bolder goals through separate agreements, if their mutual trust and similarities encourage them to do it.
The current vaccine prevents severe TB in infants, but not the most prevalent pulmonary TB in all age groups.
Worse, the new notes’ design prevents them from fitting into existing ATMs, and their denomination – 2,000 rupees – is too high to be useful for most people, especially given that the government’s failure to print enough smaller-denomination notes means that few can make change.
Just as a car’s anti-lock braking system prevents it from skidding out of control in dangerous situations, Dubai’s three-prong strategy keeps its development agenda on track, even during economic crises.
Software prevents users from posting politically sensitive words, and provocative content that gets past the automated controls is frequently removed.
Sometimes, a lack of professional freedom prevents those who may be most familiar with the data – for example, analysts whose livelihoods depend on the government(s) involved in the conflict – from using their expertise for purposes that could be politically damaging.
What prevents the median voter in a democracy from voting to dispossess the rich and successful?
The deficit that prevents Europe from drawing a line under its crisis is a deficit of trust.
But if market fundamentalism blocks expansionary macroeconomic policies and prevents redistributive taxation or public spending, populist resistance to trade, labor-market deregulation, and pension reform is bound to intensify.
Development is about change, but repression prevents change.
This underscores the need for a determined regimen to treat TB today, as well as a more complex strategy to control the disease, one which cures as many cases as possible, prevents acquired drug resistance and decreases the transmission of infection.
We face an urgent need to define a safety zone that prevents us from pushing our planet out of the unusually benevolent Holocene state.
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