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

VOA: special.2010.07.26

"It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms.

VOA: special.2011.05.19

The researchers say estimating and preventing early deaths in adults is just as important as improving child survival.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

However,scientists say a slow earthquake could be helping to release pressure, and possibly preventing more powerful quakes.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

That involves preventing industrial gases from escaping into the atmosphere where they can trap heat.

VOA: special.2009.11.21

Preventing the spread of weeds is an important part of weed management.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

Some medicines are generally effective in preventing and treating malaria.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

"My strong belief is that it may in the long run save more money, that we're preventing a lot of tuberculosis."

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

With nearly eight percent of pregnant women in the capital testing HIV positive, preventing mother-to-child transmission is especially important.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

Jones says Indonesia needs to focus more on intelligence work and preventing the recruitment of new militants through education and community involvement.

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

The Gators were 13-1 for the season, with only a loss to Mississippi preventing them from going undefeated.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

"So it's a huge program, but the effects of that program are just enormous in preventing disability."

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

president has done so. He told the council that the United Nations has a "pivotal role to play" in preventing a nuclear crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

In addition to cutting utilities and preventing supplies from going into the embassy, he said they have curtailed the movements of Brazilian diplomats.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Khamenei said the intelligence agencies of the world are attacking the Islamic republic, which stands in their way, preventing them from achieving their goals.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

"This is a way of voluntarily preventing yourself from transmitting infection perhaps to others.

VOA: standard.2009.04.29

The State Department report, released Thursday, contains an overview of the expanding security ties between the United States and Kenya, aimed at preventing terrorists from staging attacks inside Kenya and apprehending suspected terrorists.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

Susan Mills-Gray specializes in preventing chronic diseases.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Samoura Dembele heads their group. (Recording) Dembele says women in Bamako's two largest markets talk to their customers about preventing AIDS and train other market women to spread the message outside the capital.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Clinton says preventing the exploitation and marginalization of girls is no longer an afterthought but a core foreign policy objective of the United States, which is co-sponsoring a Security Council resolution on the issue next week.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

He said the main goal must be to prevent the country from again becoming a base for terrorist attacks on the United States as it was in 2001,which he said requires preventing the Taliban from returning to power.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

She was ordered to remain under house arrest for another one and a half years - a sentence that human rights groups and foreign governments say was aimed at preventing her from participating in next year's elections.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Access to a Caesarean section to relieve the pressure of obstructed labor is the most common way of preventing an unborn child from pressing so tightly in the birth canal that it cuts off blood flow to surrounding tissue.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

"I believe that the resolution they have agreed upon is the first step of what has to be an ongoing reconciliation and compromising of political views that can stabilize civilian democracy and the rule of law, both of which are essential to the efforts that the Pakistanis themselves see as so critical - namely preventing extremism and violence from stalking the Pakistani peoples and the country,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.16