Sentence examples for but precludes from inspiring English sources

The need to appear unobjectionable all but precludes lively writing.

Such a statement would be impossible to retract in a general election campaign and all but precludes a later endorsement.

Some diplomats -- and rights specialists -- argue that sponsoring a resolution satisfies an urge to wave a banner of protest but precludes the United States from bringing effective pressure on the Chinese to improve their record.

Why does nobody understand this?" For those who were not acting negligently at the time of their accidents — not drunk, not distracted — it is a tragedy that all but precludes the possibility of a dénouement.

Especially when that decimal number ranks teenbot Justin Beiber at 100, but precludes me from claiming a Windows Phone 7 "Klout Perk" and tickets to a Matt and Kim concert because I don't have enough technology Klout.

Thus, the absence of [B,o,h3] in w1 enables the emergence of W's being water and precludes I's being hydronium whilst its presence in w2 enables the emergence of the latter but precludes the former.

It says their protection is warranted but precluded by a lack of resources.

And it had become the assumed wisdom among party leaders and the media that the nature of the modern campaign all but precluded that from happening again.

That left Carlsen more vulnerable than he had ever appeared during his three-year championship reign, with any false move all but precluding his hopes to retain.

The plan would give the Palestinians control over the sacred site, which they call Haram al Sharif, but preclude the return of most Palestinian refugees to Israel.

Stick concluded that Jason's overdose had all but "precluded the possibility" that authorities could determine what had happened to Nicholas.