Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could argue that the presence of American troops would undermine Israel's sovereignty and reduce it to a client state, always living in fear that the troops would be withdrawn if Washington objected to Jerusalem's policies. Israelis also note that U.S. units would be powerless to prevent terrorist attacks...
...identity, although it contributed $111,000 to UNESCO's 1974 budget of $61.7 million (a contribution, Israelis point out, that is many times larger than that of any oil-rich Middle Eastern state). The conference's action did not actually expel Israel from UNESCO, but it did prevent the Jerusalem government from voting in the regional meetings, where an increasing number of decisions are made...
...gained a wide following as one of the three gagmen who tried to tell funnier stories than the radio audience of Can You Top This? A leading light on the "rubber chicken circuit" for more than 50 years, Hershfield was famous for such sententiae as: "A conscience cannot prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying...
...pragmatist, Giscard knew that he was isolated, and he accepted a Belgian-Italian compromise. While it gave Wilson essentially what he wanted, the compromise was described in opaque bureaucratese that cleverly disguised its real meaning. According to the protocol, the EEC will "create a correcting mechanism that could prevent during the period of convergence of the economies of the member states the possible development of situations unacceptable for a member state." Translation: if a country's economy goes sour, its budget contribution may be reduced. That ambiguous phraseology protected delicate French sensibilities but, at the same time, allowed...
...prevent the bends, the formation of nitrogen bubbles in the bloodstream, which occurs when deep-sea divers ascend too rapidly...