He began by delaying the presumed nomination of James G. Blaine as Secretary of State so as to preclude Blaine's involvement in the formation of the administration, as had occurred in President Garfield's term.
Sexual relations were permissible as long as there was mutual agreement and as long as men practiced continence so as to preclude pregnancy.
We dropped enormous amounts of money into slot machines, which were rigged so as to preclude even a statistical possibility of our winning.
The situation presented here, however, is sufficiently different from that giving rise to the traditional Ex parte Young action so as to preclude the availability of that doctrine.
However, while schools were rare under piers they could be very large, so that abundance greatly exceeded mean open water abundance variance so as to preclude confidence in differences among piers.
At the MAC layer, the framework intelligently propagates low power control messages to the higher power nodes, so as to preclude them from initiating transmissions while there are low power communications in progress within their sensing range.
The Court today loses sight of the inadequacy of other remedies and the narrowness of the category constructed by the Court of Appeals, and construes NEPA so as to preclude a court from ever intervening prior to a formal agency proposal.
Environmental samples and photographs are authorized, 29 CFR § 1903.7(b) (1977), and inspections are to be performed so as "to preclude unreasonable disruption of the operations of the employer's establishment". 29 CFR § 1903.7 d) (1977).
Importantly, the subjects wore dark woollen gloves so as to preclude the possibility that any physical cues might promote self-hand recognition.
Which antibiotic should be used preventively so as to preclude postsurgery inflammatory complications?
In order to maintain anonymity, every informant interviewed was given a code number so as to preclude identify them.
