Sentence examples for prevent it from functioning from inspiring English sources

Part of the US-led coalition's ongoing strategy against IS, also known as ISIS or ISIL, involves crippling the group's infrastructure and cutting off its sources of funding, essentially to prevent it from functioning like a state.

What obstacles might prevent it from functioning properly?

But, overall, the Libyan army's tribal nature and allegiances prevent it from functioning as a single unit, either in backing Gaddafi, or in joining the revolt against him.

But right now people who feel that way about the government seem to be able to prevent it from functioning if they do not get their way.

To the contrary, in the areas where the Iraqi regime allows it to function properly (more accurately, where the regime is not able to prevent it from functioning properly), the programme has made Iraqis better off in some ways than they were before the Gulf war.

But Cardinals Pierleoni and Gionata, realising that the commission certainly would elect a supporter of the Chancellor, withdrew from it hoping that a lack of quorum would prevent it from functioning.

The abnormal structure of this elastin prevents it from functioning as it does in young skin.

However, clogging prevents it from functioning properly due to sedimentation after a short period of service, which results to poor permeability and performance of pervious pavement.

Unfortunately there are many factors disrupting this equation in Africa, preventing it from functioning efficiently and leaving millions of people hungry.

Thus, proline induced turns in the 12-aa tail may result in concealing RKKR and preventing it from functioning in NLS-mediated nuclear import.

They sought to prevent it from ever even functioning, and, as Elizabeth Warren noted, their current budget makes clear they still want to defang it, "to make sure the watchdogs are tame".