Voorbeelden van prevent

• The police seem to be powerless to prevent these attacks.

• She would go over the accident again and again in her mind, wishing that she could somehow have prevented it.

• A block in the pipe was preventing the water from coming through.

• Fierce winds prevented the race from taking place.

• The law has done little to prevent racial discrimination and inequality.

• Note that this phenomenon has a purely inertial character; viscous forces cannot prevent it, although these forces guarantee the space regularity of the solution.

• Pragmatic randomized trial of antenatal intervention to prevent postnatal depression by reducing psychosocial risk factors.

• An inefficient tax system could thus have survived if political rigidities prevented a ruler from changing it.