Sentence examples for possibly to prevent from inspiring English sources

There were also reports that the Israelis were stringing barbed wire around the ruins, possibly to prevent supporters from coming to Mr. Arafat's side, as they did during the last siege, which ended in May.

Meanwhile, Chinese security officials placed a prominent Tibetan blogger under house arrest on Tuesday night – possibly to prevent her from attending a dinner at the US embassy – underscoring the mistrust which permeates the relationship.

"This was only an observational study," said Jennifer Lin, the lead author and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard, "so I would not recommend that women take more than the recommended amounts of calcium or vitamin D. I would suggest instead that women take at least the suggested values to keep up their overall health, and possibly to prevent breast cancer".

The Office of the Senate Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper tracks both average and peak call volumes to the switchboard, but declines to make that information public, for reasons it likewise keeps to itself: possibly to prevent denial-of-service attacks, possibly to deter competitively minded constituents from trying to set new records.

He says that airlines try to do everything possibly to prevent passengers from getting purposefully bumped.

These mimics tend to resemble distorted rather than normal B-DNA, possibly to prevent cross-reactions with other DNA metabolizing proteins that should not be inhibited.

To agitate for a constitutional convention to create a new Act of Union (possibly federalist) to prevent the UK falling apart in young David Cameron's hands.

I wanted to maximize my survivability, and I didn't want to ever think that I hadn't done everything that I possibly could to prevent this from coming back".

Last week, the disease control centers gave doctors a list of antibiotics including drugs like clindamycin and rifampin that, unlike Cipro and doxycyclin, can cross into the brain from the blood -- possibly helping to prevent anthrax from causing meningitis -- and recommended using them, too.

Even when removed from reactors, the rods retain radioactivity and must be cooled for months, possibly longer, to prevent them from posing a threat of meltdown.

"If public humiliation is not a sufficient deterrent," said former deputy executive director of the House GOP's campaign arm Brock McCleary, addressing the unending parade of conservatives who get flogged in the press for saying stupid things, "what can the party possibly do to prevent it?" May we humbly suggest that they start by not nominating morons for public office?