If any city's leaders joined forces to prevent a scheduled gathering of Jews or blacks and unambiguously bigoted opinions were uttered, a public uproar would surely follow.
Laval refused to sign and was subsequently subject to a blockade – in the end eight separate unions joined forces to prevent the 32 Latvian builders from carrying out their work.
I love the sense of community formed when a line of cars joins up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front.
The two leaders limited the group's contacts with those outside the movement, even some who may have been interested in joining, ostensibly to prevent infiltration from hostile parties.
Mongolian Buddhists join fight to prevent HIV/AIDS ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA, 12 April 2004 – Buddhists monks from the Dashichoiling Monastery, one of the some 150 Buddhist monasteries in Mongolia, are joining the global fight to prevent HIV/AIDS in the country.
Perhaps the greater problem here is not that men will take over, but that they will not turn up, in that few men join efforts to prevent violence against women and much of the work is done by women.
National Day of Prayer and Action to Stop Violence against Children, Cambodia Cambodian religious leaders, the government, and UNICEF join hands to prevent violence against children through promotion of positive parenting.
We joined the program to prevent the county from coming to us for water in the event of a future shortage.
Most of those affected had joined in efforts to prevent liquid copper slurry from reaching a nearby river after the pipeline linking the Antamina copper mine to the coast ruptured last week in the village of Santa Rosa de Cajacay, said the community's president, Hilario Morán.
Last week, however, 26 Republicans in the House demonstrated a remarkable consistency by joining 122 Democrats to prevent the extension of three questionable provisions of the Patriot Act, the post-9/11 law created during the Bush administration.
