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Example sentences for "prevent further"

  • I was much concerned because my first duty, after holding the territory acquired within my command, was to prevent further reinforcing of Bragg in Middle Tennessee.

  • Carry off stock of all descriptions and negroes, so as to prevent further planting.

  • At Mount Bolton the owner had it cut and left outside the wood for the people, to prevent further waste; at Lord Waterford's demesne more ash-trees had been cut down, and the useless parts left behind.

  • These revolts alarmed congress; and they contrived to raise three months' pay in specie, and to obtain a quantity of clothes, which they forwarded to the camp, in order to prevent further defection.

  • This money was not forthcoming, and to prevent further hostilities, the rajah consented to give up the fort of Vellum to the English, and to cede to them two districts in the neighbourhood of Mandura.

  • The proximity of the fortifications around Alexandria and Washington was enough to prevent further pursuit.

  • In order to prevent further abuses in the formulation and changing of prices, a state price control inspectorate is to be created within the State Committee for Prices with power to supervise price control agencies in each county.

  • It also gives the courts responsibility for correcting and educating citizens who appear before them, to prevent further violations of the law.

  • In an attempt to prevent further waste of valuable farmland, a law for the protection and conservation of agricultural land was passed in May 1968.

  • Although they may, if the case makes it necessary, be arrested to prevent further violence, they must at once be surrendered to the vessel.

  • Mr. Ogden, with a strong party, will leave this place as soon as possible for Wallawalla, to endeavor to prevent further evil, and we beg to suggest to you the propriety of taking instant measures for the protection of the Rev.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    crumb them; further increased; happy memory; independent member; little weary; naval strength; only give; other composers; pitched battle; practical religion; prevent burning; prevent from; prevent scorching; prevent the; prevent their; prevent them; prevented from; preventing conception; preventive measures; preventive medicine; preventive treatment; profound obeisance; sleepless night; sodium bicarbonate; speak for; thy way