Now, that same dedication to such a short-sighted, tactical objective is evidently precluding effective action to redress America's energy insecurity.
They breed carefully making astute genetic choices, precluding genetic and temperament anomalies.
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Then as now, past changes to surveys were heatedly debated, both technically and politically, without precluding comparison of poverty data over time.
It bars discrimination and pre-existing conditions from precluding health care coverage.
In conjunction with this discretion, communications restrictions and legal liability enable underwriters to provide information to institutional clients, while precluding access to the broader public.
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The defense acquisition system thus diminishes economies of scale and isolates military products from the mainstream of industrial innovation, largely precluding cross-fertilization between the defense and commercial sectors.
In 1992, the United States adopted a moratorium on nuclear testing, thus precluding the most rigorous and reliable means of establishing the susceptibility of electronic systems to electromagnetic effects.
People familiar with H-P's board have said the board was unhappy Mr. Hurd reached a private settlement with Ms. Fisher, precluding the board from completing an investigation about the sexual harassment allegations.
If claims that continuous Greenland melting accelerations were correct, even at previously measured advancing rates (and precluding intervention of another potentially overdue Ice Age), it would take thousands of years to significantly affect sea levels.
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Dzhokhar communicated with his interrogators in writing, precluding the type of back-and-forth exchanges often crucial to establishing key facts, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly.
And I'm not precluding that in the future, but what we need is a demonstration of a seriousness of purpose by Republicans in Congress and a willingness to accept the premise that there needs to be balance in this.
An unfavorable ruling could include monetary damages or an injunction prohibiting Intel from manufacturing or selling one or more products, precluding particular business practices, impacting Intel's ability to design its products, or requiring other remedies such as compulsory licensing of intellectual property.
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Thankfully, the company's roots in defense aren't precluding use for civilians, so there's a chance that future smartphones might never have to use guesswork to get their bearings -- provided that governments around the world sign off on the idea, that is.
"I am not precluding the hope and belief that when the president fully understands what this means and what my amendment would mean, that we will hopefully have a change in attitude and that my goal is the same as John Breaux's, " Jeffords said.
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