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Example sentences for: prevent

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The goal: to prevent the region's "annexation" by foreigners.
Fatalities arising from child abuse have held roughly steady, ranging from 1,014 in 1986 to 1,216 in 1993, according to the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse.
Mothers must take AZT, an antiviral, five times a day during pregnancy; receive intravenous AZT during labor; forgo breastfeeding to prevent transmission in milk; and give their babies liquid AZT four times daily for six weeks.
This doesn't prevent him from dishing out the fine writing, though; he has Mike get pretty fancy, to the point of spouting Latin.
In identifying targets for therapeutic intervention, it is important to note that the loss of collagen, rather than proteoglycan, is correlated with disease severity [ 6 ] . Furthermore, whereas lost proteoglycan is replaced rapidly, degraded collagen is resynthesized very slowly [ 7 8 ] . Consequently, understanding collagen degradation and providing therapeutics to prevent it are valuable aims.