Word: preventing
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Cambridge District Judge Wendie Gershengorn ruled Wednesday that the divestment activists, who are charged with disorderly conduct and trespassing, could not argue the protest was necessary to prevent investments in companies which do business in South Africa. The seven had been seeking to persuade the judge and an eight-person jury that their blockade was warranted by the University's failure to completely divest from South Africa...
...Fogg case has been considerably slowed downby frequent objections from Middlesex CountryAssistant District Attorney Peter Z. Belloti, whohas attempted to prevent the jurors from hearingwhat he called irrelevant testimony...
Despite the setbacks, the protesters vowed tocontinue to press their case on a political level.The seven, who are representing themselves incourt, say they will use a "legitimate purpose"defense that attempts to show that they had a dutyto sit-in to prevent illegal action. They said theillegal action was the furthering of Harvard'sinvestments in South Africa by the guests whoattended the fundraising dinner...
...away from Chief Awolowo's Machiavellian viewpoint. The more significant and shocking issue raised by the book is identified by its long subtitle: "How, in pursuit of political objectives in the Nigerian Civil War, a number of great and small nations, including Britain and the United States, worked to prevent supplies of food and medicine from reaching the starving children of rebel Biafra...
...toothpastes recommended by the American Dental Association? After all, dentists make their money from cavities, which come from not brushing or from brushing with lousy toothpaste. Wouldn't they be more likely to recommend a toothpaste likely to cause cavities, rather than prevent them...