Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listed the advantages of the small army with big reserves: it would cut military costs, would prevent establishment of a professional military caste, would encourage public interest in military policy. And finally, said George Marshall, it has been the way of the Republic from the beginning, and must continue...
Some U.S. tank columns zigzagged to set up the final trap against the Seine, but that and the original Argentan-Falaise pocket were now of lesser importance. The 1944 versions of Sheridan's cavalry crunched over the Seine, ground around Paris. They could now prevent formation of any line short of the Rhine...
...enemy's intentions were clear and frightening: the second column swung west to Chiyang-in the rear of the Chinese troops which had been massed to check the drive. With almost no motor transport, the Chinese lacked the mobility of the Japs. It was doubtful that they could prevent a junction between the enemy's Shaoyang and Chiyang columns...
...that he has either failed to appoint the right man to a key position; or failed to delegate sufficient power for the task ostensibly assigned; or failed to make clear to each official from the beginning precisely where his own power and responsibility began and ended; or failed to prevent duplication and conflict of powers; or failed to support an official fully . . .; or failed to discipline or remove an official the moment he overstepped his assigned power...
...order meant little actual relief for the U.S. The restrictions had been a WPB effort to prevent rationing by making shoes less attractive. In lifting the restrictions, WPB's motive is to protect dealers by giving them fresh merchandise so they will not be caught with shelves full of drab wartime shoes when rationing ends...