Word: prevented
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Anyone can see that a beneficent tyrant could better protect us from foreign aggression. Without the constraints of a Congress, the tyrant could act more swiftly and effectively to prevent, or prosecute, foreign wars...
Likewise, a beneficent tyrant could better provide for domestic tranquillity. He could prevent crime much better than our courts, and he could punish it more justly since the generality of the law does not bind him. In addition, a beneficent tyrant probably could better manage our economy than does the current, fractured system of the Federal Reserve, the President and the Congress...
...Yeah, a lot of times it's not constructive and I certainly wouldn't prevent people from writing what they want to write...but I don't see the point of exposing myself to something that's just going to upset me and it isn't constructive. I care about it, but I don't want to read...
With Vermont now employing a prevent defense and Harvard clearly desperate, Jonas was pulled from hit net with 44 seconds left. The Crimson pounded the puck deep into the Vermont zone, and an attempted centering pass from behind the net found no Harvard stick as the puck slipped down the length of the ice--and into the empty Harvard net. The last Dart-mouth player to touch the puck was goal-tender Andrew Allen, so according to the rulebook the empty-netter belonged to the freshman...
...Officials are struggling to prevent panic in a city that has had to abruptly forsake its favorite meal. A fact sheet on the disease is now distributed to tourists and special government clinics have been established for testing and treatment. One thing, though, about the operation that will employ 2,200 government workers and cost $40 million in reimbursement to farmers and vendors: it had better work...