Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will claim the oil-rich undersea lands on its side of the Gulf. But there is no authority for such an interpretation of international law, which has always con sidered that the high seas belong to all nations in common. As far as precedent goes, there is nothing to prevent the Brit ish, for instance, from building an oil navy on the Clyde and sailing it down to drill for oil just outside Louisiana's three-mile limit...
...Patch. Granny has built herself a comfortable house, with a guest room that is almost always occupied by a visiting missionary, and a kitchen that seems crowded day and night by neighbors. She refuses all offers of a vacation in the U.S. simply because she is afraid something will prevent her from getting back...
...some long hauls. Specially designed by engineers from his own company and G.M., his 500 new tractors were built for two-man driving teams. They have comfortable sleeping units and other features suggested by a Harvard University study on driver fatigue and safety (e.g., shaded windshields, adjustable seats to prevent tiring). Of his 1,400 new trailers, 400 are mechanically refrigerated...
...lifetime of legal practice, the early part of which included a reasonable amount of trial work in the courts, I frequently fretted and fumed at the rules of evidence which would prevent the introduction of some proof tending to establish a fact. But after . . . the testimony ... in the Army-McCarthy hearings, with its self-serving declarations, opinions, conclusions, arguments, hearsay, open incriminations and recriminations, all under the guise of testimony or crossexamination, I will never again complain about the legal rules of evidence as enforced in our courts...
...plans for the information ministry. But last week the government quietly announced the formation of a "press coordinating committee" under Christian-Democratic Deputy Otto Lenz, who had been scheduled to head the original ministry of information. All over Germany this week, the free press locked arms to prevent the government from slipping through the back door what it had not succeeded in bringing in through the front...