Sentence examples for acted to prevent from inspiring English sources

Together, they acted to prevent it.

He said he had acted to prevent Indonesia's breaking up.

Police acted to prevent the lorry "manoeuvring in an attempt to crash into the crew's vehicles".

She claimed she acted to prevent the loss of human life in an illegal war.

Mr. Bainimarama said he had acted to prevent legislation that favored indigenous Fijians and would "deny many citizens their rights".

Mr. Saakashvili said he acted to prevent a Russian-backed coup, but his image as a model reformer was shattered.

They all clearly applied when the Council acted to prevent an imminent massacre in Benghazi, Libya, in March.

The Government acted to prevent clashes between the Catholic minority and the Protestant majority in this predominantly Protestant British province.

The Township Council here, like the Virginia Assembly in Virginia Pharmacy Bd., acted to prevent its residents from obtaining certain information..

The academy said it acted to prevent the distribution of pirate copies of movies on videotape and DVD, which costs the filmmakers millions of dollars.

They claimed that UK officials were complicit in their transfer to Guantánamo Bay and should have acted to prevent ill-treatment.