The term of the hour was "nuclear winter" — nothing moves or grows — a doomsday scenario that a series of government interventions had so far failed to preclude, owing to a pernicious convergence of intractability and incompetence.
The critics say the state, which is home to an estimated one-third of the country's remaining sage grouse, is pursuing a strategy that fails to preclude intrusive development in key habitat, provide adequate buffer zones, and preserve winter habitat.
But, you know, "I don't think so," is also a statement that fails to preclude all existential possibilities.
What they fail to mention is that our article concluded that "several caveats preclude a definitive judgement".
Nevertheless, germination likely overestimates emergence, as germinated seeds may still fail to emerge and the seed burial strips used in this study precluded seed predation.
This requirement paralyzes new teachers, precludes curricular innovation and ensures that the schools will fail to realize their vision of engaging classrooms, committed to depth and expertise.
However, the large metabolite panel being tested results in a severe multiple testing burden that precludes genuine SNP-metabolite pairs from consideration when they fail to reach the stringent threshold for statistical significance.
They not only preclude double-punched ballots, but are also capable of asking voters who fail to vote for either candidate if that is really what they want to do.
What many people -- particularly young, unmarried urban journalists -- fail to realize about the suburbs is that the tyranny of routine precludes rest.
For instance, the retrospective nature of the report has precluded the identification of specific groups of women who are most likely to fail to access antenatal care such as travellers, drug-misusing women, HIV positive women and asylum seekers [ 27].
