Sentence examples for prevented from keeping from inspiring English sources
It was a promise they were prevented from keeping.
"The National Assembly in a majority judged that it was not natural, if the country has a good president and wants to keep him, that it should be prevented from keeping him.
It could just as easily be argued that the thirst for vengeance, however deep-rooted, is only externalized where other, even stronger emotions and motivations are absent and/or prevented from keeping it in check.
Then he told a rally that he had not forgotten his 2013 campaign promises, openly stating: "Either they have been achieved, or I have been prevented from keeping them".
They may also be prevented from keeping hospital appointments.
Something prevented wages from keeping up with productivity, and perhaps eroding employer confidence is part of the story.
We overlooked his fundamental sense of decorum, which prevented him from keeping an adequate lid on her.
Dr. Alrawi's son said his father had resigned his university post because he knew that the American policy of purging Baath Party members from important posts would have prevented him from keeping his job.
In June 1972, he defeated Dory Funk Jnr for the National Wrestling Alliance world championship (arcane rules prevented him from keeping the title), was nominated as "inspirational wrestler of the year", and went on to take several tag-team titles.
The former governor of Ohio, Ted Strickland, told The Columbus Dispatch that an executive order he had approved — but which had been allowed to expire under the state's current governor — may have prevented Mr. Thompson from keeping the wild animals.
In the hilly north-western province of Idleb, almost incessant shelling by government forces has not prevented rebels from keeping de facto control over swathes of territory, including parts of the border with Turkey which is 900km (560 miles) long.The war is now everywhereFighters stroll across, ferrying in arms and medicine, and greeting refugees and defectors passing the other way.
