Word: prevented
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...instance, if the flag is protected because it is a symbol "vital to all Americans," then what is to prevent Congress from protecting other symbols "vital to all Americans?" Maybe Congress will protect the Liberty Bell, and then the Statue of Liberty, and then portraits of George Washington, and then portraits of Ronald Reagan...
...original form, the meeting was designed to "prevent confusion among freshmen about academic honesty," said Moses, adding that the program had been highly successful since its inception in the fall of 1988. "The number of cases of plagarism in the College went down immediately," he said...
Following the publication of The Crimson's profile of Anderson on May 7 [Taking a Sharp Turn to the Right], Anderson and his tyrannical majority tried to prevent vice-president David R. Ackley '91 and me, the two remaining dissenters on the board, from publicly voicing our opposition to his statements...
...capitalist who ought to go back to the West," the man blusters. Retorts another angrily: "Provocateur, who sent you? If you don't like it here, get out before we throw you out!" By now, half the audience is on its feet, and only restraining arms prevent protagonists from coming to blows...
...response would be an immediate, all-out nuclear attack on enemy cities and industry as well as on military targets! Most alarming, Slavsky ignored the question of what, other than military force, might prevent war. I pointed out that Reflections warned against exactly the kind of approach he was taking, in which life-and-death decisions are made by people who have usurped power (and privilege) without accepting the checks of free opinion and open debate. I raised the issue of Czechoslovakia: Was there any guarantee against Soviet intervention? Slavsky said that had been ruled out by the Central Committee...