Sentence examples for undertake to prevent from inspiring English sources

Economists have argued that, at the very least, governments can undertake to prevent serious and prolonged recessions.

In particular Article 1 of the Convention of 1948 provides that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which states must undertake to prevent and to punish.

In addition, he makes much of wording in the Convention Against Torture (ratified by the United States in 1994), that requires the criminalization of torture and also declares that parties "undertake to prevent... other acts of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment which do not amount to torture".

It was passed by the United Nations in 1948, in the days after Nuremberg; it has been ratified by scores of countries; and it says that they will all undertake to prevent and punish genocide if it should ever happen again.

Therefore, the RSB admits that the criteria aim to address only the direct activities that farmers and producers can undertake to prevent unintended consequences from biofuel production.

Delaney is the founder of The Sink or Swim Project and www.miamisearise.com, a community educational program focused on the risks of global warming and sea level rise as well as the solutions that her generation must undertake to prevent catastrophic disaster.

Strenuous attempts will be undertaken to prevent tribal clashes.

That action was undertaken to prevent the accelerator cable from snagging on the accelerator pedal, which could have prevented the accelerator from returning to idle.

Abusers could then read their targets' timelines while logged in, retweet their words and even follow them – negating much of the work users had undertaken to prevent those harassers from accessing their accounts.

Water leaving the reservoir must meet state and federal standards; the proposed work is being undertaken to prevent those pollutants from appearing at the exit site, department officials said.

"The fact that an act is undertaken to prevent a threatened terrorist attack, rather than for the purpose of humiliation or abuse, would be relevant to a reasonable observer in measuring the outrageousness of the act," said Brian A. Benczkowski, a deputy assistant attorney general, in the letter, which had not previously been made public.