Sentence examples for precludes- from inspiring English sources

It is an unfortunate aspect of the job I do that the amount of international cricket, and the peripheral stuff that goes with it, precludes watching county cricket beyond the smallest extent.

This is a job requiring an appetite for leadership that I don't possess, and a commitment to the next 10 years that my age precludes.

Michael Haneke's acclaimed new picture offers such an unflinching portrait of the grubby business of dying – focusing on the final days of an elderly French couple – that it precludes all talk of second acts or miracle cures.

First, such arguments suggest that tackling issues such as sexism, street harassment or domestic violence somehow precludes action on problems that disproportionately affect men.

So the legislature sued, claiming that the federal constitution precludes outsourcing the districting process.

Nobody said imagination precludes seriousness in children's fiction.

The slipshod State Railway of Thailand, which was founded by King Rama V as a non-profit entity (and anyway run in a manner that precludes the possibility of turning a profit), is supposed to handle more than a trillion of the baht to be raised.China has been looking for reassurances from Ms Yingluck's government that Thailand's future really can be expected to pull into the station by 2020.

"Any man who seeks power through truth is either a fool or a loser," he reflects.Some readers may find the large cast taxing, while the Chandleresque dialogue, in its very stylishness, precludes intimacy.

Severe dilution of existing ordinary shares in several large British banks precludes any realistic prospect of recovery in their value.

He says Bigelow has got "everything we could want", though the ruling still precludes passengers from what he describes as the "bad-boy list of export control"—nationals from Sudan, Iran, North Korea and China will not be allowed to fly or train on suborbital passenger flights, or visit Bigelow's space station.Other private space companies have welcomed the ruling.

Total anonymity raises problems of its own: it precludes the possibility of informing donors or their relatives if donated material reveals them to be at risk from a specific disease.The question of confidentiality is bound up with another conundrum: who is going to pay for biobanks?