Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Minister's lips were unsealed. He made a speech again. It was a speech in which he confessed his error, but he said nothing to explain what had caused him to say that, when his lips were unsealed, he could tell us things which would prevent any single man from voting against the proposals which five days later he abandoned, confessing they had been made or sanctioned by the Cabinet in error...
...times, a motion from the floor, carried by a two-thirds vote, that the speaker be stopped, or that the question in discussion be changed, subject always to previous motions that a given speaker, or a given subject, be allowed so and so many minutes. This would prevent what ruined so many Liberal Club meetings in the past, the combination of a bore and a communist, or several, monopolizing the discussion, and leading it along channels in which most of those present weren't interested...
...advantage of all to observe that date but as a practical matter both Army and Dartmouth refuse to do so. When it is a question of the health of the players and their ability to go through a season unmaimed, tradition is not a bond strong enough to prevent reform...
...above sea level. From the point where the canal cuts into the limestone south of Palatka to the Gulf, the bottom of the canal will be over 30 ft. below sea level. Thus the question, important to all of Florida south of the canal, arises: What is to prevent the canal from acting as a drainage ditch to carry off water to a depth of 70 ft. below the present water table? Army engineers confidently say they will plug up the leaks, prevent the drainage, not lower the water except in wells close to the canal. Florida's state...
...when they want to go to the bathroom somebody takes them. Their eyes stay shut. Their spirits remain in the astral plane. But that doesn't prevent their bodies from getting off the cots or their stomachs from digesting as usual...