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Prevent
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Prevent meaning
To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something). | To take preventative measures. | To come before; to precede.
Example sentences (20)
AppArmor can prevent its own policy from being altered, and prevent filesystems from being mounted/unmounted, but does nothing to prevent users from stepping outside their approved realms of control.
Complementation * The verbs prevent and stop can be found in two different constructions: "prevent/stop someone from doing something" and "prevent/stop someone doing something".
The wealthy sometimes petitioned such lettres to dispose of inconvenient individuals, especially to prevent unequal marriages (nobles with commoners), or to prevent a scandal (the Lettre could prevent court cases that might otherwise dishonour a family).
And the junta would have been able to prevent Suu Kyi from taking part in the poll as its election laws prevent prisoners from being members of registered political parties.
Decades-old hepatitis B vaccines prevent liver cancer and HPV vaccines, introduced in 2006, prevent cervical cancer.
It does not prevent primary infection and does not prevent reactivation of latent pulmonary infection.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper told the Commons: “The independent review of Prevent highlighted what countless other reports have also warned about – the lack of sufficient action on deradicalisation and Prevent in our prisons.
The sanctions, which broadly prevent Li from doing business in the US, do not prevent him from holding official talks, American defence officials have said.
This modification would prevent users from sideloading specific APK files and would also prevent app stores from installing those same apps.
Employing an extractor hood when cooking can help prevent condensation, as trickling water on pots helps prevent excess moisture from escaping.
Prevent targets all forms of “extremism”, and public sector workers - including doctors, teachers and nursery staff - to report signs of potential radicalisation and "prevent people being drawn into terrorism".
So this is why I think Democrat or Republicans are so anxious to prevent a strike and prevent that economic blow.
Swanson says the bylaws will help prevent SRO landlords from evicting tenants simply to raise rent, and it may help prevent a lot of homelessness.
To address this problem, he continued, the Government has proposed taking measures to “prevent boys from killing each other” and, at the same time, “prevent” the law from being broken.
FCT’s aim is to make sure there are less people on our roads during the lockdown, to prevent the spread of the virus and prevent accidents.
It has become clear that the phrase ‘Rule of Law’ means something like ‘thou shalt not not resist Islamization’ or ‘thou shalt not not take measures that can prevent replacement migration’ or ‘thou shalt not not prevent sharia law emerging on your soil’.
I thought all this social distancing to flatten the curve wasn't necessarily to prevent people from getting sick, but to prevent people from getting sick all at once and overwhelming the hospitals (which seems to be close to happening in NYC anyway)?
Relatedly, NEXIM is the national guarantor under the Inter-state Road Transit Scheme (ISRT), designed to prevent diversion of goods transported by road to other ECOWAS countries, to prevent revenue leakages in member countries.
The other four coronaviruses may also be less deadly because we have all encountered them as children, and even if our immunity does not prevent us from getting them again, it may still prevent severe disease.
The United States may not be able to prevent China from using lasers, but symmetrical retaliation could prevent laser perpetrators from loitering around U.S. takeoff and landing sites and reduce morale among China’s forces.