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(See Slate 's review of his The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories .) Banned from giving interviews by a judicial gag order, Paula Jones was doing "her best to prevent their two young children running amok and raiding the fridge," while her husband spoke on her behalf, Evans-Pritchard wrote.
It is important to diagnose dissection because anticoagulation can prevent carotid thrombosis and embolism [5].
But it did not prevent Wilson striking up, in due course, an acquaintance with a frisky widow, whom he met in his favorite vacation haunt, Bermuda.
I can't prevent that.
Criminologist John DiIulio claims that inner-city "super-preachers" are the best hope for saving troubled kids from crime: Churchgoing seems to prevent backsliding by recovering drug addicts and former criminals.