Sentence examples for prevented from acting from inspiring English sources

When a group is prevented from acting pro-socially, they tend to act anti-socially.

Moreover, United Nations officials were prevented from acting as monitors.

But the Security Council had been prevented from acting, the court said, by American vetoes.

Over Microsoft's objection, the district court invited Prof. Lawrence Lessig, the same professor whom this court prevented from acting as special master in the prior consent decree action, to participate as amicus curiae.

In this view, he wasn't just a candidate for the twentieth hijacker: he was one of the actual hijackers in all but the final execution, and was prevented from acting on his intentions only by his arrest.

Mr. Sharon has said in the past that he was prevented from acting to deport Mr. Arafat by a pledge made to President Bush not to harm the Palestinian leader.

But it concluded the strict rules surrounding the forfeiture of honours prevented it from acting.

This prevented banks from acting more like investment banks and barred them from underwriting corporate securities.

He insisted, however, that this would not have prevented him from acting if the allegations had been brought to him as the senior church figure in the area.

Conservatives have on their shoulders a world that will change dramatically because they prevented us from acting when we had the chance.

The threat to the hostages prevented NATO from acting more forcefully, and the Serbs released 121 hostages immediately after the incident in an effort to cool tensions.