Prevent in a sentence as a verb

If you target it late stage, you'll prevent further transmission but the human could still die.

The best way to prevent burnout is to follow up a serious failure with doing small things that you know are going to work.

You want to target it early stage, preventing transmission AND protecting the human from symptoms.

This is one of the best things that has happened to science in many years, except that publishers deliberately prevent it.

They're paid big bucks because they win money for their clients, prevent their clients from losing money and build networks to people that have money to give them.

That is, you can use a bioweapon to prevent your enemy from gaining or holding a strategic position.

They felt entitled to prevent the taking of pictures in the restaurant and felt they were being played with false official documentation.

Deaths mean increased regulation, often under the mistaken assumption that more rules would prevent engineers from making bugs.

The most significant result of this poll is that HN now seems to be past the point where we can rely on an honor system to prevent users from giving junk answers to polls.

You have to look beyond the law to what its purpose is - to prevent companies from exploiting your personal information, and to force them to tell you what data they hold.

After all, since he plans to self-publish the second edition, there is nothing to prevent him from self-publishing additional copies of the first edition if he requires them.

* Simple diffing would prevent deliberate obfuscation tactics like burying provisions deep inside piles of irrelevant stuff.

"We believe these changes will also help prevent a fire resulting from an extremely high speed impact that tears the wheels off the car, like the other Model S impact fire, which occurred last year in Mexico.

But even if this new protocol responds to different technical requirements, that shouldn't prevent the company from making it public and interoperable.

That said, the fact that we had prevailed against Amazon also gave these engineers the confidence that we could and would do so again -- and ultimately, it didn't prevent anyone from matriculating.

Indeed, GoT-broadcast-to-top-of-TPB time is counted in a couple of hours; so why do they try to push those technologies still?The answer is probably because the main goal of DRM is to control distribution channels, not copy-prevention.

In part this is because Washington allows non-competes, but also doesn't like to infringe on the free flow of labor -- temporary restraining orders preventing an individual from working for a company are extraordinarily rare.

Our counsel had reviewed the non-compete before we hired the engineer, and concluded that the non-compete didn't actually prevent an engineer from working for a competitor, but rather prevented much narrower activity like poaching customer lists or supplier relationships.

My concern has always been not that we shouldnt do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism, but rather are we setting up a system of checks and balances?So, on this telephone program, youve got a federal court with independent federal judges overseeing the entire program.

Prevent definitions

verb

keep from happening or arising; make impossible; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project"

See also: forestall foreclose preclude forbid

verb

stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state; "We must prevent the cancer from spreading"; "His snoring kept me from falling asleep"; "Keep the child from eating the marbles"

See also: keep