Sentence examples for attempting to prevent a from inspiring English sources

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"Police again find themselves in the middle while attempting to prevent a concerted attack on the nationalist community," Allan McQuillan, the Belfast police chief, said in a statement.

It is about attempting to prevent a sharp turn for the worse, and if necessary to allow something to be salvaged in a post-Trump era.

Charles's forces then intervened in Russia, attempting to prevent a Polish conquest of the country and to install his son Gustavus (later king of Sweden as Gustav II Adolf) as ruler.

The Queensland police service is attempting to prevent a senior constable who accessed and leaked the details of a domestic violence victim from giving evidence at the woman's breach of privacy hearing.

We learned that the same Obama administration that had refused to pursue the perpetrators of the Bush torture regime at home had also tried to put its thumbs on the scales of justice in Spain – aggressively attempting to prevent a counter-terrorism judge from trying the senior legal minds of the Bush administration for their part in the torture of detainees at Guantánamo Bay.

Still burdened by the destruction of Vulcan, Spock is attempting to prevent a planet's incineration by a giant volcano; Kirk flouts the Starfleet prime directive by allowing the primitive inhabitants to clap eyes on the USS Enterprise as it rises from the seabed to deliver Spock from the point of death.

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As a result, compensation committees are challenged with balancing the tension between attempting to prevent an "AGAINST" SOP recommendation and incenting the creation of shareholder value through the executive compensation package.

This highlights one of the great problems with attempting to prevent an antibiotic catastrophe - how much can one country do?

By the end of 1931, King Alfonso, in exile, stopped attempting to prevent an armed insurrection of monarchists in Spain, and was tried and condemned to life imprisonment in absentia.

And Carson attempts to prevent a murder.

They made warrantless searches of homes, offices and residences, coerced testimony, detained people without cause and even restrained an attorney who attempted to prevent a warrantless search.

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