Ever since Congress voted to repeal the FCC's broadband privacy protections due to come into force later this year - which would have prevented internet service providers like AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner, Sprint and Verizon from selling personal data like web browsing history without prior consent - there's been a lot of bluster and blarney flying about.
During the late 19th century the Kant-Laplace views were criticized by the British physicist James Clerk Maxwell, who showed that, if all the matter contained in the known planets had once been distributed around the Sun in the form of a disk, the shearing forces of differential rotation would have prevented the condensation of individual planets.
History hung heavily over the president's remarks: He insisted the military advisers were not the vanguard of a larger American force, and he brushed off critics, some from the George W. Bush administration, who contend that had he left a larger residual force behind in Iraq in 2011, it would have prevented the chaos engulfing the country today.
While a Justice Department proposal would have prevented Microsoft from forcing personal-computer makers to accept additional features as a condition of licensing the Windows operating system, it did not bar Microsoft from incorporating new software features in Windows.
This would have prevented doctors from forcing her to undergo cesarean surgery against her will.
Most of the discussion focused on the measure that would have prevented the financing of any military force in Libya.
But the judge found that neither would have prevented Rodas from succumbing to the blunt force injuries he suffered in the wreck.
No rules of the road forced Russia to de-orbit its long-defunct Cosmos 2251 spacecraft, which would have prevented its collision last week with Iridium's communications satellite.
It would have prevented the prosecution of Saddam Hussein for war crimes his forces committed in Kuwait -- unless he consented.
This would have prevented the Baha Mousa case, whose death at the hands of British forces in Iraq led to a court challenge by his family.
