They faced horrendous bureaucratic obstacles, some of which were put in place by our government with the objective of preventing Jews from coming to this country.
"The Bar will not give up hope in its objective of preventing this bill becoming law," he said.
Deutsche Bank said its pay plan was "linked to the objective of preventing incentives to undertake unreasonably high risks".
The tobacco companies say that they, too, share the objective of preventing under-age smoking; their products, they frequently assert, are intended for adults.
"This was grossly at odds with the licensing objective of preventing vulnerable people from being exploited by gambling," said the Gambling Commission.
He will need to find a way to be clearer on strategy and red lines for the party to achieve his objective of preventing this crowding out all discussion of Lib Dem policy.
What we are doing squarely addresses both of those concerns, and what we are proposing will help provide a more agile, flexible and focused F.B.I. that we need to meet that primary objective of preventing the next attack.
Public support for the operation has risen to 53%, 47% endorse the official objective of preventing Isis from attacking Russia, while 29% think Russia is protecting Assad's regime from a US-sponsored revolution.
But rather than seeking regime change to prevent genocide, President Obama focused on the narrower objective of preventing "a humanitarian catastrophe" and explicitly ruled out foreign-imposed regime change.
Although the United States and Israel share the same objective of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons capability, the two differ on the point at which it may become necessary to act militarily to forestall the Iranian nuclear advance.
Surely, some tightening of this legislation must be possible, while retaining the worthy objective of preventing frivolous lawsuits".
