"precluding" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is usually used as a verb meaning to prevent or exclude the possibility of something. For example, "The store's strict dress code precludes any patrons from wearing hoodies."
The Green party sought to play down Ryan's remarks, pointing out that he was not precluding anyone from voting for Fianna Fáil if they wanted to... but, er, well, it was up the punters at the end of the day who they gave number two on the ballot paper to.
Words and analysis did not seem to be his natural medium: rather, he combined a phenomenal musical instinct and formidable emotional control – precluding, in his earlier playing, sentimentality or bombast – with physical gifts of a very rare order.
With a large deficit precluding a spending splurge and monetary policy already at full throttle, ministers look abroad for ideas.
This has the effect of precluding financial assistance from multilateral bodies such as the World Bank.
By precluding Michigan's universities from considering the race of their applicants, a policy the Supreme Court upheld in Grutter v Bollinger in 2003, the voters had edged minorities out of the political process and prevented them from lobbying for the benefits of racial diversity in the student bodies of Michigan's public universities.
At the same time, he indicates that the amendments will not all be restrictive, and that the powers of corporations will be so clearly defined as to give stability to business by precluding surprises due to unexpected interpretations of the law by the courts.
It favoured Christians over Muslims (without precluding periods of good relations with the Ottomans); Orthodox Christians over Western Christians; and Arab Orthodox Christians over the Greeks.
The oil-for-food system functions, and would continue to function, like a massive welfare scheme, providing unemployed and despairing Iraqis with enough food and medicine to survive, but precluding any sort of productive work or investment.That would ensure the continued misery of most Iraqis, but it would probably not bother Mr Hussein very much.
Bashing the Left Party embarrasses the SPD without precluding a revival of the grand coalition after the federal election if need be.
But from the state's point of view, there is a dilemma: how far can the compact with Orthodoxy go without precluding a similar one with the Russian Federation's 15m or so Muslim subjects?The idea of some entente between modern Russian nationalism and Russian Muslims is not as absurd as it seems.
An engaging memoir of his time as president captured the atmosphere of Prague Castle in what to his friends were fairytale years.It was Mr Havel's genius that he not only toppled communism, but offered a way out of its ruins that all could follow: calming nerves, laying ghosts and precluding revenge.
