Sentence examples for nearly prevented from inspiring English sources

A near-disaster nearly prevented the speech from being given.

As an elite competitor herself, Alissa Johnson's hectic schedule nearly prevented her from getting here.

Zen Buddhist elders nearly prevented Abbot Loori's ordination as a monk, after seeing a tattoo peeking from his robe.

Those injuries — and professors' concerns that students should focus on their classwork — nearly prevented Ohio State's players from making that trip to Ohio Wesleyan.

His advocacy on the issue nearly prevented him from becoming majority leader, which he holds by a mere one-vote margin.

Dr. Spitz said he recalled one case in which the second home nearly prevented a New York couple in their early 30's from getting married.

And it turns out that controlling these humdrum risk factors can nearly prevent heart attacks, said Dr. Daniel Levy, director of the Framingham Study, a federal study of heart disease in the population of Framingham, Mass.

The hunk factor is supplied by Sam Josh Duhamell), whose highway mishap on the way to the city nearly prevents him from reuniting with a dream girl he met the previous New Year's Eve; they promised to reconnect a year later at the same restaurant.

Preventing binding of 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate to the hydroxymandelate synthase by introducing a S201V replacement in its substrate binding site nearly completely prevented HMA production but increased MA production only 3.5-fold.

PDE10A inhibition nearly completely prevented the decrease in neuron number, with 175±4 NeuN positive neurons found per field in the TP10-treated R6/2 mice (Figure 5C).

Structural studies suggest that αA172 and αA168 are partially unfolded [17] and, so, αB-crystallin binds effectively to these polypeptides and the aggregation process is nearly completely prevented in αA172 and significantly decreased in αA168.