Sentence examples for it prevented open from inspiring English sources

Spain allowed the barons considerable autonomy over their large agrarian estates, including the exploitation of their tenant farmers, but it prevented open feuds between barons and eroded their political power by excluding them from offices in the central government.

What prevented open and serious debate about the reasons for war was, above all, the character of the President.

Secondly, some of the feedback received from users had been critical of elements of the site that prevented open access to the intervention.

However, these officials have been constrained by the peculiar politics of HIV/AIDS in the country that prevented open dialogue within the government.

In our series of 32 cases, bedside diagnostic laparoscopy prevented open laparotomy in 17 subjects, 64% (n = 11) of whom were subsequently discharged in good clinical condition (Table 2).

This is in line with recent observations from juvenile rats, in which chronic treatment with GM6001 also prevented open eye potentiation after 7 days of MD (Spolidoro et al., 2012).

By avoiding continuous macroscopic networks of conducting polymer in composite coatings the latter can be prevented, opening up the application of conducting polymers for secure performance in intelligent corrosion protection.

As tensions rose, Lithuania asked the Allied Supreme Council to intervene, and it proposed two demarcation lines to prevent open hostilities, drawn in June and July 1919 (the second one was known as the Foch Line).

For that matter, look at the heavy-handed ways the military tries to prevent open coverage of anything it does.

Discreetly avoiding specific situations will not always be a viable alternative, but it is one tool that you can use at times to prevent open conflict in family or group gatherings.

To prevent open discussion by threatening imprisonment is a characteristic of totalitarian regimes.