Sentence examples for prevented the completion from inspiring English sources
Criminal Information Center in Clarksburg, W.Va., halted most gun sales because it prevented the completion of background checks that are required by the 1993 Brady law.
Before his 86th career win last weekend — he finally had a stroke of luck when the leaders Jimmie Johnson and Matt Kenseth tangled on a restart and Gordon slipped past unscathed into first, getting the victory when rain prevented the completion of the race — Gordon was an afterthought at best to make the Chase.
Material shortages prevented the completion of the boom net prior to the attack.
The Armeeoberkommando (AOK) acknowledged that an undefeated Serbia severed Austria-Hungary's connection to the Ottoman Empire and prevented the completion of the Berlin Baghdad railway.
After Leland Stanford's death in 1893, legal disputes tied up the Stanford estate and prevented the completion of the university for several years.
Within a month, however, the First World War broke out, and new official restrictions on the use of capital prevented the completion of the contract.
It's unlikely that the legal wrangling will prevent the completion of the project.
It would prevent the completion of the single market and eventually lead to its disintegration.
The Botanical Garden, which had been seeking to prevent the completion of the tower, said that the talks had reached an impasse.
They said they would engage in a filibuster that would prevent the completion of the electoral count until Inauguration Day came and there was no president.
In fact, he argues, Nabokov's text is strewn with veiled wordplay suggesting that Shade -- whose murder prevents the completion of his 1,000-line 1,000-lineays a crucial role in the creation of Kinbote's footnote aria.
