Sentence examples for had prevented any from inspiring English sources

He praised his troops for their restraint and said they had prevented any serious injuries or consequences.

A comprehensive, court-imposed order had prevented any reporting of the affair in Israel, though many of the details had already been widely exposed abroad.

The authorities had prevented any attempts to explore for ways down via the main tunnel after further collapses on day three, but now the families had found freelance miners (so-called "pirquineros") who were willing to try to find a way through.

Mr. Sheffer said that nobody at the station had prevented any sections of the book from being read but added that some workers there seemed to be on edge about the possibility of broadcasting phrases that could draw the ire of federal regulators.

She claimed that political pressure had prevented any senior police officers from being charged.

The U.S. boom occurred by overturning the Glass-Steagall regulatory framework that had prevented any one company from offering universal financial services.

Currently, it is designated as wetlands, and the impact studies, so far, have prevented any development.

Discipline in capital markets, they say, has prevented any tendency to overbuild.

"But, to our knowledge, we've prevented any service cutoffs," Mr. Peck said.

Moreover, a divided Iraq would have prevented any chance for Democratic governance to take hold.

The rabid anti-tax fervor in Congress, however, has prevented any change.