• Minutes later it took desperate last-ditch defending to prevent Kenny-Dowall from adding a second on the right-hand side, as he was stopped from grounding the ball.

    BBC: New Zealand 24-10 England

  • Another challenge facing location-based networks is to prevent tech-savvy individuals from gaming their systems.

    ECONOMIST: A tale of fake mayors and real deals

  • Republican lawmakers used the pro-forma sessions - as Democrats have done in the past - to prevent the president from using his recess appointments power.

    BBC: Obama recess appointments found unconstitutional

  • They tried to -- they spent millions of dollars trying to prevent us from reforming our health care system, millions of dollars trying to prevent us from ending taxpayer-funded bailouts on Wall Street, millions of dollars trying to prevent us from protecting consumers.

    WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President in Dubuque, IA

  • The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said it will continue with policies design to prevent over-investment from real estate investors next year.

    FORBES: China To Keep Locks On Housing Bubble

  • Trent Lott (R-Miss.), used his prerogative as majority leader to prevent McCain-Feingold from advancing unless supporters can produce those 60 votes.

    CNN: Related Stories

  • Murphy's late collapse - he bogeyed the last four holes - was not enough to prevent him from keeping his card for next season, the 34-year-old having started the week in 118th place on the Order of Merit.

    BBC: SPORT | Golf | Classy Fasth wins Mallorca title

  • In addition, the Controller can delay restart or sequence re-start of appliances to prevent them from coming-back on line simultaneously after a power outage, which can also cause unstable grid conditions.

    FORBES: Smart Appliances Need Smart Policies

  • The company isn't just media-shy--it also wants to prevent bot creators from figuring out how to evade its analysis.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Supporters of liberal policies need to sharpen their arguments if they are to prevent neo-Powellism from sweeping all before it.

    ECONOMIST: Europe and Islam

  • And I think we have to find the ways -- which could include diplomatic and other ways -- to prevent that from happening.

    CNN: Netanyahu: Putting politics aside

  • Now the arrival of crash avoidance technology - systems that can alert drivers to danger and even take action to prevent accidents from happening - promises to cut the number of crashes on our roads.

    BBC: How close are we to a crash-proof car?

  • The bill introduced March 9 by Fletcher Hartsell, a Republican and lawyer, would allow non-lawyers to buy up to 49% of a firm, leaving it in control of licensed attorneys. (It came to my attention via AmLaw.) The bill, which would also allow outside investors to buy into accounting firms, includes language designed to prevent non-lawyers from interfering with the relationships between attorneys and their clients.

    FORBES: North Carolina Bill Would Let Non-Lawyers Invest In Law Firms

  • And the Department of Health and Human Services said it would write new rules to ensure that federal health-privacy law doesn't prevent states from providing records to the background-check system.

    WSJ: Obama's Gun Orders Face Hurdles

  • This won't do anything to prevent middle-income taxpayers from getting hit with this bugaboo, a tax that was established to catch high-income tax evaders.

    FORBES: What The Tax Cut Means To You

  • Jones, Mafi and Denis Hurley saw plenty of possession in the first quarter but Munster grew frustrated by the Dragons' well-organised, aggressive defence and O'Gara had to react sharply to prevent Ashley Smith from releasing a team-mate for the line.

    BBC: Munster 27-3 Dragons

  • To help mom in her efforts, Kimberly-Clark introduced disposable Kleenex hand towels, to prevent families from sharing the same germ-infected hand towel.

    FORBES: Mom Knows Best

  • It started on the ground with seizures of airfields in the west of Iraq -- to prevent their use as launch pads for Scud missiles -- and of oil fields, to prevent them from being ignited.

    CNN: Analysts: War provides 'textbook case'

  • James ended a thoroughly entertaining first half with a world-class fingertip save to prevent Vassell's accurate curling left-foot strike from the edge of the area from sailing into the top right corner.

    BBC: Man City 3-1 Portsmouth

  • Pfizer's drug tremelimumab and Bristol-Myers Squibb's ipilimumab are antibodies to a protein called CTLA-4 (cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4) that acts as an emergency brake to prevent killer T cells from attacking healthy tissue.

    FORBES: Targeting Melanoma

  • Chevron managed to get this case removed to Ecuador on foreign non conveniens grounds, ending what might have appeared to be a slam-dunk settlement, and since then has fought a scorched-earth battle to prevent any judgment there from being enforced outside Ecuador.

    FORBES: Chevron Ecuador Plaintiffs Face Tough Sell In U.S.

  • The study also revealed that so-called blocklists, used by some illegal file-sharers to prevent monitors from connecting to their computers, might not be much use.

    BBC: BitTorrent study finds most file-sharers are monitored

  • U.S. insistence that the European Community agree in the present GATT round talks on a radical reduction in trade barriers -- particularly in the agricultural sector -- that threaten to prevent Central Europe from exporting its way to prosperity.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Which side will we be on?

  • Boston Scientific also wants an injunction to prevent Israel-based Medinol from offering its technology to competitors.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • To prevent the real-estate market from crashing, China also started a massive public-housing program aimed at lower-income workers.

    WSJ: China Housing Prices Rise After 9 Months of Decline

  • These are provided by banks desperate to prevent debt-ridden firms from closing lest they drag the banks down too.

    ECONOMIST: Too many South Koreans are reluctant to change their ways

  • To prevent a 3year-old from losing or damaging the recorders, the devices come with specially designed clothing to hold them in place.

    NPR: RI City Wins $5M Bloomberg Prize With Word Gap Fix

  • One purpose of the system: to prevent end-buyers from skipping the middleman.

    WSJ: In the Land of Giveaways, Mr. Cohn Is the Sultan of Swag

  • All personnel were rescued safely and the wreckage was destroyed in U.S. airstrikes to prevent its high-tech equipment from falling into Iraqi hands.

    CNN: marines.bunker

  • McCain also criticized Mr. Cox for eliminating a trading rule that acted as a speed bump to prevent short-seller from pounding a stock.

    WSJ: McCain Says Cox Should Be Fired As SEC Chief Amid 'Casino' Markets

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