Sentence examples for prevented attempts from inspiring English sources

The UK-based Help Refugees group said six shelters had caught fire and claimed watching police prevented attempts to douse the flames.

But that has not prevented attempts to limit their use, said Christopher Dunn and Donna Lieberman of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

A spokesman for the Israeli police, Micky Rosenfeld, said that a number of Border Police operations "had prevented attempts to transfer rockets" from Gaza to the West Bank in recent years.

The Internet is simply a means of communication, like the telephone, but that has not prevented attempts to demonize it — the latest being the ludicrous claim that the Internet promotes terrorism.

In particular, the 8.0 mmol/L median for retrospective control may have satisfied the attending clinicians at the time and prevented attempts to lower the blood glucose further.

Authorities in Iran claimed it prevented attempted sabotage at Arak in March, blaming foreign intelligence services for tampering with imported pumps for the facility.

Republicans said they would continue to press for an investigation because they want to prevent attempts to weaken financial regulation by offering discounts to government officials.

With U.S. aid he steadily expanded and modernized his military forces, which he used to prevent attempts to overthrow his regime.

"What the government needs to do now is to amend the legislation in order to prevent attempts to manipulate votes," said Mr. Webb, who is a rare outspoken critic of Hong Kong's tight-knit web of business relations.

Human rights defenders say parent companies often try to prevent attempts to bring cases against them by arguing that claims should be brought against the operating company – a subsidiary – where the alleged violation took place.

A state-controlled publication, News Weekly, says that Beijing's police have been on high alert since September to prevent attempts by organisations such as the Falun Gong cult and "hostile elements inside and outside China" to sabotage the congress.