"Hamas has given a chance to efforts by Egypt and other sides to stop and prevent the Israeli aggression," Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman here, said by telephone, "but Israel did not respect any of them.
Know your dog's fears and dislikes and do your best to prevent the fear from developing into aggression.
However, after three days of bitter struggle, we managed to prevent this aggression and save our rights almost intact.
While no action is taken to prevent the situation spiralling out of control, examples of aggression, disorder, and a failing judiciary pile up.
With near unanimity, legislators urged President Lyndon Johnson "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression" across the length and breadth of Southeast Asia.
In 1950, President Truman announced his willingness to use an atomic bomb — "every weapon that we have" — against North Korea during the war to prevent Communist aggression on the South.
There were several assurances that the single aim of our military policy is to prevent further aggression and thus keep the balance of world power favorable to the non-Communist nations.
Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon was premised on the UN's commitment to deploy peacekeeping forces in the area and prevent terrorist aggression against Israel by Hezbollah.
Three days later, both houses of Congress passed a joint resolution authorising "the president, as commander-in-chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the US and to prevent further aggression".
Two days later, at Johnson's request, Congress overwhelmingly passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which authorized the president to take "all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression".
