Sentence examples for decree to prevent from inspiring English sources

The remedy was included in the consent decree to prevent Microsoft from using its monopoly on the desktop to gain an unfair advantage in competition for server software.

At the last minute, the conservative government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi issued an emergency decree to prevent the removal, but President Giorgio Napolitano refused to sign it, instigating a constitutional crisis.

The government proposed a decree to prevent Rete 4 being moved to satellite, but it ran into such fierce opposition that it withdrew the text for "reformulation".A second decree was aimed at restricting telephone tapping in criminal investigations, and also the publication of transcripts.

According to Wiranto, on 18 May, Suharto issued a decree which provided authority to him to take any measures to restore security; however, Wiranto decided not to enforce the decree to prevent conflict with the population.

These consent decrees are agreements that allow the government to regulate ASCAP and BMI's license fees and how they operate in order to prevent monopolization and encourage competition.

"The purpose of the consent decree was to prevent and prohibit Microsoft from certain exclusionary behavior that was anticompetitive in nature," Mr. Barnett said.

A federal consent decree intended to prevent Mount Kisco village officials from discriminating against Hispanic day laborers has been extended another year, as part of a settlement of a complaint that charged the village had modified a housing ordinance to force workers out.

Because, the PRO industry is so concentrated, the duopoly is subject to a 70-year old consent decree designed to prevent tie-in and price fixing, which explains why the royalty fees are set by a panel of judges.

The federal-court appointed attorneys monitoring City of Chicago and Cook County compliance with the Shakman decrees, designed to prevent politics from influencing most personnel decisions, raised objections to as many as 27 hirings and firings in the first month of the Berrios administration of the Assessor's office.

The government said the decree was necessary to prevent violence against the sect.

That practice appears to stifle competition in just the way the consent decree was meant to prevent.