Sentence examples for prevented members from inspiring English sources

Tavistock (population 24) was created in 1921 to sidestep the blue laws that prevented members of the Tavistock Country Club from golfing on Sundays.

"I think the rigidity, the poor design of this institution often prevented members' honorable purposes from resulting in practical improvement," said Ninfa Segarra, the board president, who served on the board for 12 years.

Palestinian legislators, forced to hold a council session in two places today because Israeli measures prevented members from traveling between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, also had strong words.

[Daily News] The police have complained that a prohibition against snitching in Jewish law may have prevented members of a Hasidic community in Brooklyn from coming forward with information about two men wearing yarmulkes who attacked a 20-year-old black man, Andrew Charles, in Crown Heights last month.

Officers also prevented members of the public from entering the courtroom, though it's unclear why.

From the accounts given, we identified several factors that may have prevented members of the family and social network from recognising and responding to the suicidal crisis.

Subsequent reforms prevent members of the I.O.C. from visiting cities that bid on the Olympic Games.

Mr Justice Gibbs granted the injunction against RMT, preventing members walking out next Monday.

No longer can a dissident senator prevent members from inserting irrelevant material in conference.

State party rules prevent members from endorsing a candidate in a contested primary (and Montana's is June 3).

Twenty-seven inches of snowfall couldn't prevent members of the Lisa Project from renaming the street to "David Bowery".