Technocrats can tell producers what they can charge, but they cannot prevent the inevitable.
"The IPCC cannot prevent a member of police staff leaving before facing misconduct proceedings, " she said.
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As the thinking goes, the police cannot prevent much crime because they can't be everywhere at all times.
Individual charitable contributions to these nonprofits cannot prevent a death of a thousand cuts from government budget woes.
They cannot prevent Mr Assad from having the upper hand militarily, but they are further eroding his shrinking political authority.
The only therapy is giving oxygen, which delivers some benefits but cannot prevent eventual deterioration and death from the illness.
As long as we continue to manipulate biology in new ways, we probably cannot prevent all such events from occurring.
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The CSRC, as Daniel Ren of the South China Morning Post notes, cannot prevent new issues from coming to market forever.
Even the best designed policy cannot prevent a recession, but it can ensure the biggest boost to demand at the least cost.
This reduces the damage, although frequently it cannot prevent some permanent disability.
Regulation cannot prevent financial crises altogether, but it can minimise the devastation.
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The government cannot prevent them from working if they are self-employed.
It may succeed by its resistance to current tendencies in slowing down undesirable developments, but, since it does not indicate another direction, it cannot prevent their continuance.
The collective weight of these parties, however, cannot prevent the current political impasse boiling down to a confrontation between the Ulster Unionists, the province's largest party, and Sinn Fein.
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Foreswearing a Starbucks latte cannot prevent ill fortune.
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You cannot prevent someone from making this move.
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Business schools alone certainly cannot prevent an economic crisis, but they are uniquely positioned to help the leaders of tomorrow prepare to manage risk and adhere to ethical business practices, both of which are essential safeguarding the global economy.
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One clear lesson from the past is that while a central bank cannot prevent oil prices giving a one-off boost to inflation, it must try to prevent this feeding into higher wages and prices of other goods and services.
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Yet governments cannot easily prevent their citizens from having free access to such advertising.
And I think with locked cockpit doors, the air marshals themselves, the pilots, the passengers, the screening that goes in ... you cannot necessarily prevent violence on an airplane, but that is not the TSA's mission.
If Bitcoin is truly an alternative currency to to the US dollar, then it cannot eliminate or prevent credit card fraud.
It was the fault of everyone and of no one in particular, and we cannot know how to prevent it from happening again.
The European Central Bank, operating within the legal limits imposed on it by the treaties that govern the European Union, is providing some liquidity to the banks and a bit of relief on the interest-rate front for sovereign borrowers, but it cannot do much to prevent the insolvent from being forced to default.
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If crises can hit us at any moment for no reason, and not because, say, governments impose self-reinforcing down-spiral accounting rules on the banks, then it is easier to believe that we should spend our time figuring out ways to mitigate the inevitable consequences rather than trying to prevent what cannot be prevented.
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But what I want to emphasize is this: Even when we have differences, we cannot allow those differences to prevent us from making progress.
The need for international agreement cannot be used as an excuse to prevent European countries, including the UK, from pressing ahead.
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