Sentence examples for prevented from realizing from inspiring English sources

In this case, the consequence to plaintiff of defendant's failure to publish is that he is prevented from realizing the gains promised by the contract--the royalties.

Their attitude was essentially that of Pavel Stroganov at the beginning of the century, that the sovereign must not have "his arms tied" and so be prevented from realizing "the plans which he had in favour of the nation".

But growing up in segregated Texas, he'd been prevented from realizing a lot of his dreams.

(Even the most famous post–World War II benefit, the GI Bill, was not an unqualified success, as black veterans were prevented from realizing many of its perks).

But war and politics prevented Vavilov from realizing his dream of a world seed bank.

Kruger, after all, was the one obstacle that prevented Rhodes from realizing his dream of empire.

The latter's death, however, prevented Brancusi from realizing the project.

We were truly an entrepreneurial company, and the partnership had prevented us from realizing our full potential.

A long, painful illness prevented him from realizing his dream of writing an opera called "Alice in Wonderland," stemming from his love of Lewis Carroll.

But dozens of Latino immigrants employed by the company assert that the couple's descendants, who now run the company, paid and treated them so poorly that it prevented them from realizing their own American dream.

Footage of a 1960 Presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon ingeniously repurposes Kennedy's remarks about a world "half free, half slave" to refer not to Communism but to the Confederate institution, and to depict Kennedy as a covert abolitionist whose assassination prevented him from realizing his intentions.