And now China will move swiftly to prevent that possibility, sending food, fuel, arms, and whatever else is needed.
Isis has moved swiftly to prevent this by demanding that the allies swear allegiance to the caliphate and give up their weapons.
White House officials described the conference as "a complete violation of administration rules," and moved swiftly to prevent the episode from becoming a larger symbol of administration spending.
Conservatives in Congress have raised mounting alarms about the costs of the plan, but lawmakers are facing pleas from the White House to act swiftly to prevent economic calamity.
Mr. Mueller said that the federal government must act swiftly to prevent such attacks and economic espionage from other countries because they pose a "potentially devastating" threat to the country's businesses and infrastructure.
Kenya's government has failed to seriously tackle doping and must act swiftly to prevent its athletes being banned at the 2016 Rio Olympics, the chairman of the country's Olympic committee has said.
And Major Howard's men sought to strike swiftly to prevent the Germans from blowing up the bridges if they were overwhelmed; the British needed those bridges to resupply their airborne units.
In addition, the authorities acted swiftly to prevent any members of the exiled opposition from returning to Turkmenistan, by closing the border with Uzbekistan and restricting the issuance of visas by Turkmen embassies abroad.Winds of changeThere are considerable doubts as to whether Turkmenistan's present economic system can be maintained.
It stood beside subway tracks damaged in the World Trade Centre's collapse, and recently there were extensive excavations to allow for repairs, causing noticeable vibrations.When the cracks appeared, the city government moved swiftly to prevent a disaster, and prescribed demolition.
Rebels in Misrata have been holding out against attacks for two months and UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has stressed that Nato needs to act swiftly to prevent a "massacre" in the city.
What could be the beginning of a broad crackdown on short-sale abuses came Tuesday, when Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox told a Senate committee the agency was moving swiftly to prevent mischief in the trading of shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the battered mortgage finance companies.
