Aesthetics also partly stopped me from installing heated cables in the gutters and along the edge of the roof (Nuheat Plug-In Heat Trace Cable, $70 for a five-foot length), to help prevent ice dams.
In Silicon Valley, success is celebrated to the point of self-adulation; in Guadalajara, it is hidden, partly to stop criminals putting you on their hit lists.Yet entrepreneurship in a place without a culture of business innovation is not as impossible as it sounds.
Hollywood studios buy cinemas and TV channels partly to stop them showing rivals' products.
That's partly to stop priests from constantly picking their favourite bits and partly to make sure all parts of the Bible are covered, even the tricky passages.
Along with Statoil, it agreed to introduce an element of spot pricing in contracts, partly to stop sales to European customers from falling further.
China only allows government-run trips, partly to stop pilgrims mixing with extremists.To discourage the othersChina's heavy-handed repression angers many Uighurs.
The central bank is expected to flood money markets with more cash than usual, partly to stop the yen from rising too much.
Even in China, despite an unreliable postal service and few credit cards, the government is encouraging direct marketing, partly to stop people migrating to cities in search of things to buy.Yet most direct marketing remains clumsy.
Partly to stop such creeping denialism, Argentina's supreme court ruled in 2009 that the dictatorship's killings between 1976 and 1983 constituted "crimes against humanity within the framework of [a] genocide".
"It was decided that it would be a good idea for me to record some of my own stuff ... partly to stop me moaning about the Yardbirds", Beck recalled.
