A tie vote meant that the resolution failed, thus precluding the grave consequences of which administrators had warned.
Her nose, through which runs a carotid artery (thus precluding cosmetic surgery), is well-shaped, symmetrical and cutely turned up.
In addition, Baidu was locked out of its account - thus precluding the re-routing of traffic to Baidu's website.
"But he's the one who is pulling the bill from the floor and thus precluding further consideration of all of the Iraq amendments that we have pending".
That seems to have ended any chance of Russian and Chinese participation in any credible U.N. involvement on Syria, thus precluding a Security Council Resolution.
Its military terms made the resumption of hostilities virtually impossible for Germany, thus precluding the usual option in armistices.
Stove had done her best to challenge the direction of this historical tide, though, by beating Sue Barker in the semi-final, thus precluding an emotionally appropriate all-English final.
Germany agreed to relinquish the Deutsche Mark on the condition that the new currency area would not lead to direct or indirect socialisation of its members' debt, thus precluding any financial assistance from EU funds for states facing bankruptcy.
Tragically, when he makes his first appearance naked, he is shot only down to the drum-tight pecs from the front: thus precluding any view of that prosperous tummy.
He sees certainty, and the questioning that leads to it, as a wall separating us from the skin-to-skin relation to reality that we had as children — the colors, the textures, the tones of voices — and thus precluding discovery.
It met only twice last year, and the second meeting was held at the same time as the conference on induced seismicity, in Midwest City, thus precluding the attendance of most experts.
