Sentence examples for prevent an attempt from inspiring English sources

A swift enough takeover of the oilfields would prevent an attempt by the Iraqi leader to blow them up, and stop the Turks and Kurds from arriving there first and getting into a fight for them.

John Edwards claims that protection against self-incrimination in his campaign finance prosecution should prevent an attempt to depose him in another case involving a purported sex tape made with his mistress.

That nobody believes she is personally corrupt might not prevent an attempt to impeach her, though that still looks improbable.No modern Brazilian president has faced a weaker starting point.

When asked how far he would go to prevent an attempt to repeal the controversial policy from being approved in the upper congressional chamber, McCain responded by saying, "Absolutely I will filibuster or stop it from being brought up until we have a thorough and complete study on the effect of morale and battle effectiveness".

The area's entire police force was then "withdrawn to prevent an attempted honor killing".

The increased security measures did not prevent an attempted attack on a high-speed passenger train in northern France on August 21.

Gardai yesterday prevented an attempt by the Kinahan crime cartel to shoot a Dublin man linked to the Hutch family in Dublin's north inner city.

But Ms. Bhutto's party, which has been negotiating a power-sharing deal with General Musharraf, chose only to abstain from the vote, preventing an attempt to declare the vote invalid.

The British champion managed 92kg in the snatch and 113kg in the clean and jerk, despite suffering a leg spasm which prevented an attempt at 115kg.

Also on Wednesday, German media reported that police in North Rhine-Westphalia had prevented an attempt by radical Islamists to kill the leader of the far-right Pro-NRW party, Markus Beisicht.

She attempted to ram Potemkin but sailors sympathetic to the mutiny reversed the engines and then prevented an attempt by Captain Kolands to blow his own ship by severing the detonating wires.