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Example sentences for: prevented

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Under the headline "Murdoch's China Kow-Tow," the Standard said Murdoch--who in 1994 had prevented the BBC (considered "unfriendly" by China) from using his Star satellite in Asia--feared his Asian broadcasting interests might be damaged if HarperCollins published a book containing strong criticisms of China by a man the Chinese had called "a perfidious whore" and "a drooling idiot."
Both reports called attention to the dispersal of effort on too many priorities, the declining attention to the craft of strategic analysis, and security rules that prevented adequate sharing of information.
Absolute measures of PGE-2 differed between assays that prevented the pooling of results; relative values may reflect differences in sample handling or assay conditions, or differences in ELISA kits themselves.
The runner-up, chronic hard-luck racer Scott Goodyear, complained the mix-up had prevented him from passing Luyendyk.
Furthermore, its formation is prevented by pre-incubating the nuclear extract with anti-Ets-1 polyclonal antibodies, which recognize the Ets-1 DNA binding domain (figure 3, lane 8), but not by pre-incubation with pre-immune polyclonal antibodies (figure 3, lane 9).