Word: prevented
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...known in the same net. In the end, the courts may decide that Beck's silence is technically less vulnerable to punishment than Peck's. The reverse distinction is palpably clear in moral terms. Beck remained silent to guard his neck; Peck risked his neck to prevent capricious injury to other persons. Although the irony of the distinction may elude the Senate and the courts, it is surely one that the press-and the public-ought to cherish and defend...
What 18 nations had sought to avoid, what England and France had fought to prevent, Gamal Abdel Nasser was on the way to achieving. The canal was open and operating on Nasser's terms...
...tutorial bibliography was designed to prevent tutors from devoting tutorial exclusively to their special interests, and to give the Department specific material on which to base general examinations...
Nasser also hurried reconnaissance troops to a base just 40 miles southwest of the Gaza Strip while the Cairo radio shrilled that Saudi Arabia would prevent Israeli shipping from passing through the Gulf of Aqaba. If true (and at week's end the Saudis had neither confirmed nor denied), this was a double challenge to the U.S. because it 1) considers Saudi Arabia's King Saud a force for stability and order in the Mideast, and 2) has pledged itself to the principle of free and innocent passage in the Gulf of Aqaba...
...aortic channel he introduces an additional valve made of plastic, with a floating ball which stops the backflow when the heart relaxes. (Such valves used to tick like a clock inside the patient, are now silent because the ball is covered with silicone rubber.) The gadget does not prevent all backflow but stops enough to keep most patients' hearts from being overloaded...