Sentence examples for draw to prevent from inspiring English sources

Toronto host Columbus to start the weekend, with not a lot to cheer about at BMO Field – though by their current, modest standards, a goalless draw to prevent New York going top of the East would count as a success.

Hoffenheim manager Julian Nagelsmann watched his side earn a 1-1 draw to prevent hosts RB Leipzig - the club he is taking over in the summer - from going third in the German Bundesliga.

The legislation that was brought in eight years ago was carefully drawn to prevent such outcomes.

The window shades are drawn to prevent them from knowing precisely where they are going.

District lines are drawn to prevent minorities from winning; polling places are located in places hard for minority voters to get to; voter ID requirements are imposed with the purpose of suppressing the minority vote.

The specific instance traceable as the origin of my religious impulse after my interest in the cement mixer passed (to my parents' great relief) involved a nineteen-fifties war movie that my father and I watched together on television one Sunday afternoon with the curtains drawn to prevent the sunlight from making it hard to see the screen of our black-and-white television.

The whirring of aeroplanes overhead, the rattle of machine-gun fire, and finally the frightful thunder of a gun in the field at the bottom of our garden, would all have served to distract a mind less happily engaged; but as it was, with curtain closely drawn to prevent the escape of light, I consorted that evening with Cardinal Manning, Thomas Arnold, Florence Nightingale, and General Gordon.

But NBC, another news organization, as well as the national football, baseball and hockey leagues, filed an amicus brief for the plaintiffs, the N.B.A. and N.B.A. Properties Inc., contending that a line must be drawn to prevent new media like on-line services from taking away the value of a live game or television broadcast of the game.

Thursday's report suggested that if city officials keep the lottery they should introduce an electronic background check and other screenings before the drawing to prevent unqualified candidates from advancing.

Recognizing that current building codes are drawn to prevent loss of life rather than building collapse, the main point of NIST's recommendations was that buildings should not collapse from fire even if sprinklers are unavailable.

The plasma and urine samples were immediately put on ice after the sample was drawn to prevent complement degradation ex vivo.