That could prevent the Mets from acquiring third baseman Shea Hillenbrand from Boston.
"He has said it will prevent the Iranians from acquiring nuclear weapons, but it will actually facilitate and legitimize an Iranian nuclear arsenal.
No matter how minor his role, though, the evidence presented in the case presents a broad picture of the months leading to the raids, which, the police said, were timed to prevent the group from acquiring fertilizer to create bombs.
(Ending the war quickly was itself a way to prevent the Soviets from acquiring territory in the Pacific while fighting was under way there, and then colonizing it, as they did in Eastern Europe).
Mr. Murdoch, who has never shied away from a regulatory battle, has been beefing up News Corporation's lobbying efforts in Washington in the last few months to urge regulators to revise a media ownership rule that would prevent the company from acquiring The Los Angeles Times and other newspapers in markets in which it already owns television stations.
The bill, titled the End Bulk Collection Act of 2014 and currently circulating on Capitol Hill, would prevent the government from acquiring "records of any electronic communication without the use of specific identifiers or selection terms," some 10 months after the Guardian first exposed the bulk collection based on leaks by the whistleblower Edward Snowden.
If the yen did not depreciate as a result, and if there were no reciprocal demand for Japanese goods or assets (which would drive up domestic prices), what in principle would prevent the BOJ from acquiring infinite quantities of foreign assets, leaving foreigners nothing to hold but idle yen balances?
Hence, ATA is able to prevent the adversary from acquiring valuable information on the sink's location through the traffic analysis attack.
It includes legal barriers, for example, that essentially prevent the Environmental Protection Agency EPAA) from acquiring toxicity data on chemicals and imposing new restrictions on them even on highly toxic substances such as asbestos.
The United States did not particularly want the cruiser, but it did want to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring it.
