Sentence examples for prevent the game from inspiring English sources

"I'm delighted that the fog didn't prevent the game from being finished," O'Neill said.

They were thinking: "OK, we just need to make sure we can prevent the game from crashing for about five minutes at a time".

Brown, who has recalled them both to face the Catalans, was equally unimpressed by the deliberately mischievous pre-match comments of Walters, who urged the referee Steve Ganson to prevent the game degenerating to "Wrestlemania".

The crumbs of consolation, meagre as they are, include the fact that Real Madrid's incompetence prevented them from signing David de Gea this summer because it took the goalkeeper's two saves – one, scooping Andre Schurrle's looping shot, was of the highest order – to prevent the game having been sealed long before the end.

And so Alpha Protocol is one of those games that drives you batty with angst, frustration and even a twinge of anger at all of the little (and not-so-little) things it gets wrong and that prevent the game from delivering the entertainment experience you can just sense it was capable of.

The Cardinals needed an extension from the N.F.L. to sell enough tickets to prevent the game's broadcast from being blacked out locally.

Chung has just enough to prevent the game-breaking wideout from making his first impact play of the game.

Last summer, Umarov called on his supporters to do all in their power to prevent the Games.

Fifa was aware of concerns that something was amiss but did not feel they had enough proof to prevent the games from going ahead.

Four women's wrestling events may make their debut in Athens, a move that would prompt the cancellation of two men's wrestling events to keep in line with attempts to prevent the Games from becoming larger.

The commonly touted argument is that the Olympics might have the same effect on China as they supposedly had on South Korea, forcing the host government to ease political repression in order to prevent the games being tarnished by international opprobrium.