Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...animosities among the six republics and two autonomous provinces that make up Yugoslavia's loose federal structure. Tito, the father of postwar Yugoslavia, often brutally suppressed local nationalist sentiments when they occurred. After his death, that authoritarian rule gave way to a weak rotating leadership designed by Tito to prevent the domination of the country by any one national republic...
...U.S.S. Constitution's cannon, said Eunice E. Kim, chairman of the Tufts Republican Club. "We hope to be the one who gets [the cannon] last," Kim said. She added that the Republicans plan to post a guard at the cannon for about five hours on election night to prevent the Democrats from winning the game...
...were any other reason why someone felt they could not be impartial, I raised my hand. I did not know if this was the right thing to do, but when I explained it to the judge, and answered yes when he asked if I truly believed that it would prevent me from objectively listening to the facts as presented by the lawyers, he said he had no choice but to excuse...
...prevent future undeclared wars, the Congress overwhelmingly passed the War Powers Act, requiring the president to report to Congress within 48 hours after troops had been moved into "imminent hostilities." The resolution allows the Congress to cut funding for the activity after 60 days if it so wished...
Having taken the course last spring, I had suddenly picked up a Core credit in Literature and Arts B by doing little more than flipping through the course catalog. It guess it was inevitable that Harvard would prevent anything that logical and generous from ever happening...