Sentence examples for prevented even a from inspiring English sources

The Republicans prevented even a hearing for Mr. Obama's nominee, which effectively handed Mr. Trump the chance to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Scalia.

Expansion opponents prevented even a legislative committee vote on a plan until supporters forced a debate in the House two weeks ago and passed a modified version of Kelly's plan.

Even though this reform is supported by more than 90% of Americans, and even though 56 out of 100 senators voted in favour of it, the Republican minority prevented even a vote from being held on the bill because it would have allegedly violated the second amendment rights of "law-abiding Americans".

And banks, accustomed to a cocoon of government protections that had prevented even a single bank failure in the postwar era, trembled.

If implementation of the SVI model could have prevented even a portion of the patients from experiencing FO, there would be significant savings in health care costs.

For these reasons, the separation method based on HPLC with UV detection was used for cortisol quantitation in saliva (Dziurkowska and Wesolowski 2009) because it prevented even a slight overstatement of the analysis result.

And when missed appointments have been estimated to cost the U.S. as much as $150 billion a year, preventing even a few is worth the time and money saved.

Nearly a hundred thousand people have signed a petition to prevent even a small experiment there.

Speaking at the White House, Obama said: ""By preventing even a vote on this bill, they prevented a raise for nearly 28 million hardworking Americans.

Having previously expressed a determination to proceed despite the monastery's objections, Hong Kong's top politicians are now backpedaling to prevent even a temporary closing.

Settlers and their supporters are working to prevent even a limited withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza, areas the Palestinians claim for a future state.