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Beavers has maintained a pleasant demeanor while behind bars but his refusal to reveal his name prevented his release from the Utah County jail, Harris said, and sheriff's deputies spent hours trying to identify him.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

The only harm that should be prevented is violations of individual rights.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010

Congratulations Conservative Voters, you have once again prevented the nation from solving an important problem.

Two senators say House health-care proposal is dead 2009

But what cannot possibly be prevented is a natural disaster.

In Defense of Passion | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

A District report in August 2009 said that the water flow was low but that whether the extensive damage to the home and its artifacts could have been prevented is "debatable" because the blaze was so intense and fast.

D.C. police identify students involved with drug lab Post 2010

The range of diseases that can be prevented is more than impressive.

T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D.: Nutrition: The Future of Medicine Ph.D. T. Colin Campbell 2010

It took 100 years to discover that aspirin prevented heart attacks and a couple of decades to discover the many uses of ACE inhibitors in cardiac disease.

Drug Patents, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

So to say sprawl can be prevented is like saying earthquakes can be prevented.

Tunnel Construction Could Be Delayed One Year « PubliCola 2010

The range of diseases that can be prevented is more than impressive.

T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D.: Nutrition: The Future of Medicine Ph.D. T. Colin Campbell 2010

In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf posits that a hypothetical, gifted sister of Shakespeare, wishing to write but prevented from a broad education by limited reading and restricted interaction in the world of ideas, would have been laughed at and ultimately would have been driven to despair.

Interview with Susan Vreeland 2010