Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Above all, these were the points from which the Germans would have to attempt the only campaign which could possibly prevent their final defeat-a series of actions designed to destroy the hitherto indestructible Red Army. Their chances of succeeding in such an effort were less than they had ever been-yet it was hard to see what else the Germans could hope to do. They had already proved that great breakthroughs, great gains of territory, the capture of cities were not enough. Russia now could probably survive even the loss of Moscow and its transport and manufacturing area...
...could see many women with rifles in their hands. . . . We were strained to the utmost. Our nerves were breaking ... the situation was critical, hopeless . . . then came the Stukas bringing ammunition, but the enemy is far superior, many times superior. In the end it is no longer possible to prevent them from capturing all our positions in the southern part of the town. . . . They are shelling the fortress which is still in Italian hands...
...European Court and police force, to decide disputes inside Europe and prevent or localize Europe's wars...
...consumer of more than half of the output of the durable goods industries of the country. The government as a customer is not, fettered by the constitutional limitations of which it is subject as a government. It will be next to impossible for business and organized labor to prevent their largest customer from imposing almost any policy it desires...
...Webb in 1892. When a Labor Government made him Secretary of State for Dominions and Colonies, elevated him to the peerage in 1929, she refused to assume his title. Famed for their 1909 "Minority Report" on British poor laws and for their subsequent crusade (backed by Winston Churchill) to prevent public destitution, the gradualist Webbs spent their lives investigating and reporting. Bernard Shaw called them "walking encyclopedias." In 1932 and 1934 they and their inevitable swarm of secretary-researchers visited Russia, gathered the data for their notable Soviet Communism: A New Civilization...