Sentence examples for prevented from pursuing from inspiring English sources

All were prevented from pursuing their legitimate activities for six to seven hours.

In 2001, no one imagined that English children would be prevented from pursuing the age-old custom of conkering.

His wife, Louise, whom he had foolishly prevented from pursuing an acting career, has grown increasingly restive, and has moved toward a romantic Catholicism that severely tested the patience of the not very ardently Episcopal Perkins.

Marilyn Schiffmann Hamden, N.Y., June 1 , 2009• To the Editor: While mourning the possibility that Troy Davis might be prevented from pursuing habeas corpus relief, Bob Barr doesn't acknowledge that this is precisely a result he and his colleagues demanded when they passed the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act.

He has faced harsh criticism at home and abroad for the way in which his former protégé was hounded, arrested, badly beaten in police custody and then, when tried, prevented from pursuing his claim that he was the victim of a conspiracy.

For example, a person may feel that starting an exercise regimen would decrease her likelihood of obesity, but she may be prevented from pursuing this behavior because she also perceives that exercise is inconvenient or joining a gym is too costly.

It may be tempting for the Conservative government to gorge for a while on the true-blue wishlist the Liberal Democrats prevented them from pursuing.

When her physical ailments prevented her from pursuing some of these interests, she still thought only of others' comfort and enjoyment.

A 1998 Nellie Mae study found that 38 percent of student loan borrowers reported that their debt had prevented them from pursuing grad school.

Ms. Zagari Rammellzee said his illness had slowed him down over the last few years and prevented him from pursuing a prodigious list of ideas.

Cory Provost, a graduate student who is president of the university's Student Senate, said steep core requirements prevented students from pursuing more courses in their chosen fields.