Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shooting percentage of the other team. They're afraid to shoot, and they're looking for him when they do shoot-so they don't shoot as well. When he is on offense, the other team has to weaken its defense in other areas to prevent him from getting the real easy shots...
...indict her. Though tear-gas pens are legal in most states, the notable exceptions include New York, Illinois and California, which contain the nation's largest, unsafest cities. New York City even bans water pistols loaded with an eye-stinging chemical like ammonia. Ironically, there is nothing to prevent the purchase of rifles by mail or even at the nearest sporting-goods store...
...liberal orientation -- one, that is, which looks to the Federal government for the implementation of social change -- leads him to feel that unless the Federal government can do somehing, all is lost. That is simply not true. The government can pass--and what is more important, enforce -- laws that prevent that harrassment of people exercising their right to assemble and form organizations for their own advancement. These organizations can then, by putting pressure on public and private agencies, facilitate change. That is the limit, not of the moral obligation, but of the political capacity of the government...
Terrell threw barely a clean punch all evening. With his gloves and arms stationed in front of his face in the boxing version of a prevent defense, the 6'6" monster walked doggedly at Clay, cornering him against the ropes time and again. Then once he had the champ tied up, he started swinging furiously with his right, showering blows alternately on Ali's kidney and nape. Variations on the attack included a headlock before he started the pounding and a straight-on butt where he would plant his lowered head in Ali's midsection and drive at a turnbuckle...
...many as five extra years for ducking out of his earlier trial. But other defendants may well imitate Barringer. Says Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas S. Nunzio: "It won't take them long to catch on." The law allows judges to jail defendants during a court trial to prevent Barringer situations. But a judge would have to set forth in writing his reasons for believing that the defendant might be likely to flee; the defendant could then file an appeal to a higher court. The same goes for pretrial release and for the new law's provision permitting judges...