Then the lawyer sprang his big question: You could have prevented someone from hurting people and you decided not to.
Sekulow's assertion that the Secret Service would have prevented someone "nefarious" from entering Trump Tower is misleading because it assumes the agents' role in protecting candidates is the same as protecting officials.
At Princeton, Mayer majored in public policy, and then, as he describes it, he slipped past the gatekeepers at Stanford who normally would have prevented someone from entering both the law and computer science graduate schools.
An Opinion piece in the New York Times looks approvingly at the results of California's primary, which selected two Democrats to face off in November to replace outgoing Sen. Barbara Boxer (also a Democrat), and says a similar system in, say, Texas could have prevented someone like, say, Ted Cruz from ever making it to Washington.
In 2012, the law was amended to clarify that public servants like cops are not exempt after a state Supreme Court ruling arguably could have prevented someone from claiming self-defense even if a rogue cop was, for example, trying to rape them.
The Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund is currently sitting on $11 million in grant funds for "brick-and-mortar" work on historic sites because the state's hiring freeze has prevented the New Jersey Historic Trust from hiring someone to review the 2002 and 2003 grant applications.
"But this was clearly a call-out which might have prevented us from helping someone else in genuine, accidental need".
Objective or rational guilt, by contrast — guilt that is "fitting" to one's actions — accurately tracks real wrongdoing or culpability: guilt is appropriate because one acted to deliberately harm someone, or could have prevented harm and did not.
"Heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate," President Barack Obama said on Friday.
Depression, Alloy and Abramson concluded, had prevented an unwarranted illusion of control when someone won — and had provided a sense of responsibility when someone lost.
