Still, the steady Scandinavian mind set prevents matters from getting completely out of control, with players such as Sweden's Daniel Alfredsson keeping it cool.
The second, resting the injured joint, is supposed to prevent matters from getting worse.
"We must act now to prevent matters from getting worse," Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, said prior to the vote.
At this stage, there is no lightning-bolt solution, but two things would prevent matters from getting worse.The first has to do with infrastructure.
The Democrats are trying to put the best possible face on this terrible economic reality, imploring voters to give them a little credit for preventing matters from becoming much worse.
Suffice it to indicate, what every student of the history behind the Act of February 26 , 1919 knows, that that Act was intended to prevent matters concerned with the mere etiquette of trials and with the formalities and minutiae of procedure from touching the merits of a verdict.
Secondly, the two countries should avoid goading each other and should have a good sense of risk management in bilateral relations to prevent matters from spinning out of control.
Have fresh dripping water if possible; it prevents fecal matter from ending up in the drinking tray.
Mike's familiar tone prevents the subject matter -- madness, creativity, the connection between a writer's experience and the writing -- from becoming portentous.
The problem is that the film-makers' offhand treatment of the subject matter prevents this from tugging at the audiences' consciences and emotions in the way, for example, that Soderbergh's far more rousing Erin Brockovich managed.
