I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 911, have prevented a 911-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.
The only thing that prevented a father's love from faltering was the fact that there was in his possession a photograph of himself at the same early age, in which he, too, looked like a homicidal fried egg.
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.
Freedom is the very essence of our economy and society. Without freedom the human mind is prevented from unleashing its creative force. But what is also clear is that this freedom does not stand alone. It is freedom in responsibility and freedom to exercise responsibility.
The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.
But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.
If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. . . The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.
I had gotten the role of Fandral in Thor, but scheduling conflicts (with Chuck) prevented that from going forward.
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement. Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented.
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
I thought there was something in Ted Cruz`s dignity that prevented him by endorsing a candidate like that, because that was the best explanation of what he did.
I don't think my style of play is what has prevented me from winning major championships. I think that execution has been more of a factor.
As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.
How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing themselves?. . . Without a strong constitution to counteract the strong tendency of government to disorder and abuse there can be little progress or improvement.
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.