Roosevelt was used preventing him from restraining strikes by longshoremen and automobile workers.

罗斯福曾被派去阻止他限制码头工人和汽车工人的罢工。

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A shortage of funds is preventing the UN from monitoring relief.

资金短缺使得联合国无法监督救济工作。

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Special attention should be paid to preventing our earth from being polluted.

应该特别注意防止我们的地球被污染。

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The idea is to help keep a competitive balance by preventing the wealthiest teams from getting all the good players.

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All actions aim at preservation or change, at making something better or preventing it from becoming worse.

所有行动都是为了维持或者改变，为了让事物变得更美好,为了不让它变得糟糕。

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Sometimes they inhibit by just preventing the ligand from interacting with its receptor.

有时它们只是,干扰配体和受体的相互作用

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How do we respond to the father or the mother or the loved one of the next warrior lost in battle who asks, why did you oppose through that resolution the job they were sent to pursue but did absolutely nothing from preventing them from going from the outset?

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Just as photos on camera phones needed Instagram's filters for their distribution to grow, and GPS chips went from preventing you from getting lost to Foursquare's social check-ins, so the physiological signals that are currently generating charts, graphs and analysis will eventually be moulded into more social experiences, he argues.

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It is during that time that the next government will need to contend with Israel's two greatest challenges - preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, and preventing the new Obama administration from undermining Israel's strategic position by selling out Israel's security to buy "pictures of victory" of its own with Iran and Syria.

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