Sentence examples for precluded that from inspiring English sources

There have been numerous suggestions that the building should simply have been blown up, but its symbolic value precluded that option.

Specifically, the court rejected petitioners' plea for interpretation of the "limited Times" prescription not discretely but with a view to the "preambular statement of purpose" contained in the Copyright Clause: "To promote the Progress of Science". Id., at 377-378. Circuit precedent, Schnapper v. Foley, 667 F.2d 102 (CADC 1981), the court determined, precluded that plea.

Her colleagues duly precluded that option by preventing her from contesting a fourth election.

Lewis says these laws may need to be amended to allow effective government monitoring systems, but he notes that the scandal surrounding the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping practices may have precluded that kind of legislation.

LeMay's original flight plan had incorporated an area search if necessary, but weather conditions and the ship's distance from Long Island precluded that possibility.

Lockwood, however, appears to have precluded that possibility by putting a hold on approval of some of the permits sought after April 29, the date when O'Connor and Councilman Ed Strivalsa--potentinl rivals inext yearar's mayoral race--held separate news conferences calling for new controls on growth.

The government had already submitted a brief seeking to preclude that defense.

Moving the landing day forward to Tuesday should preclude that possibility.

"I'm not going to do anything to preclude that," he said.

Unfortunately, we know just enough of them to preclude that slight consolation.

Lingering uncertainties over the fate of an American marine base in Okinawa preclude that.