Sentence examples for prevent actions from inspiring English sources

Checks and balances, principle of government under which separate branches are empowered to prevent actions by other branches and are induced to share power.

Thus "morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions" (T 3.1.1.6/457).

While some decision-making processes often result in the generation of an observable action, for example eye or limb movements, others may prevent actions and occur without an overt behavioral response.

A second further conclusion is that morality (fundamental moral principles) cannot be grounded in reason; this one follows both from his views about the "inertness" of reason generally, and from his assumption that morality is capable of motivating people: "Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions.

I think that the main thing you can do at a moment like this is to try to prevent actions that are disguised as a bailout by the public, that will actually make the situation worse for the public.

DFMO does not prevent actions of putrescine or of spermidine which are located downstream of ODC in the polyamine synthetic pathway.

The Senate bill would permanently prevent action to clarify the law.

This was despite a sustained campaign of lobbying and denial by the chemicals industry – led by Dupont – which bears strong similarities to the campaign by fossil fuel companies to prevent action on climate change.

It concludes that reason alone cannot prevent action or resist passion in controlling the will.

This can prevent action failures that are caused by failures of either set of SSCDs, but it cannot prevent the mal-operation of the SSCS for hidden failures in the SSCDs.

To the extent that lobbying is about protecting the status quo, and it often is, one good way to prevent action is to make an issue very partisan.