Sentence examples for big enough to prevent from inspiring English sources

Instead of being removed, the old meter poles should be topped by a simple object big enough to prevent locked bikes from being lifted off by thieves.

They are more reluctant to migrate because their landholdings are bigger but not big enough to prevent them sinking towards poverty.

Clearly, though, the government-induced boost to spending wasn't big enough to prevent unemployment rising to ten per cent by October, 2009, or to bring it back down much over the ensuing two years.

But economists said the program was still not big enough to prevent many millions of Americans from losing their homes before the books are closed on the Great Recession and its painful aftermath.

In California, the G.O.P. has essentially shrunk down to a rump party with no interest in actually governing — but that rump remains big enough to prevent anyone else from dealing with the state's fiscal crisis.

On the other hand, I thought that the White House did effectively say that Obama would have gone along with the McConnell proposal, which would have been a clean extension of the debt ceiling, if the extension had been big enough to prevent us having to go through this again next year.

This isn't a dark, scary tunnel deep in the mountainside; it's merely a shallow overhang, big enough to keep the wind and rain at bay, but open enough to prevent any claustrophobia.

I don't think the big supermarkets are doing enough to prevent waste - packaging continues to multiply; and surely we 'consumers' should be changing our habits, for example, ditching plastic water bottles (the biggest con in retail history, to package drinking water, a perfectly good source being from the taps in our dwellings).

That's distinct, I'd argue, from a world in which financial markets assume that macroeconomic stabilisation policy is sophisticated enough to prevent big nominal swings in the economy, such that when the central bank allows or enables a big drop in nominal output everyone is caught off guard and a crisis ensues.

That would be a theme for the Eagles: Their front four creating havoc and their inexperienced secondary holding up just enough to prevent big plays.

But that was not enough to prevent big losses in stock markets, record lows for the dollar and huge swings in the prices of oil and gold.