Top 395 Preventing Quotes & Sayings

This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States.

Preventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights.

There is no 'grand conspiracy' preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do.

In preventing a riot and dispersing a crowd, the Crucifixion is an example of cathartic victimization.

Preventing liquidation of an unbalanced market will leave you in tears.

Each year terrorist attacks kill far fewer Americans than do auto accidents, drug overdoses, or even lightning strikes. Yet in the allocation of government resources, preventing terrorist attacks takes precedence over preventing all three of the others combined. Why is that?

Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mind-set of youth today.

Being green means preventing waste.

The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

If you live your life all out today, not only is it fun, but you are preventing a midlife crisis.

Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.

You can't live in fear of preventing mistakes.

The purpose of VEVO is to continue the tradition of corporations preventing artists from making money on their art.

The judicial system is really taking an activist role in preventing Trump from implementing his agenda.

The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

There are structural problems within the industry that are preventing us from displaying aspirational black roles.

Preventing gender-based violence is critical to establishing safe, productive, and healthy workplaces for all.

By preventing the federal government from removing known criminal aliens, we allow our country to be a safe haven for criminals.

It's usually a spiritual thing that's preventing somebody from having happiness.

Preventing surveillance of millions of people at a time is totally within our ability.

Preventing people from illegally immigrating to the United States should be the primary purpose of Customs and Border Protection.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the one purpose as well as to the other. But this objection will have little weight with those who can properly estimate the mischiefs of that inconstancy and mutability in the laws, which form the greatest blemish in the character and genius of our governments.

In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?

And so border security is not simply preventing people from getting in, but very often preventing somebody from leaving for the wrong reasons.

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.

We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

There's no law preventing a journalist from publishing whatever they want.

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

One way of preventing disease is worth fifty ways of curing it.

Is neither a cure for AIDS nor a way of preventing infection with HIV.

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.

The Protect America's Schools Act is not the only answer, but it is a positive step forward in preventing tragedies.

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further

By preventing new conflicts, we avert the causes of radicalization and the risk of terrorist attacks in Europe, including in Germany.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Good policymaking is evidence-based, and preventing crime and antisocial behaviour involves fixing the society we all live in, identifying risk factors and demographic characteristics that make some people more likely to become involved in certain crime, and then preventing those offences taking place as often as possible.

Saudi Arabia has been successful in preventing Houthi missiles from causing substantial damage. Yet, the inability of Saudi authorities in preventing Houthi missiles from being fired in the first place serves as an embarrassing reminder that the kingdom's leadership is unable to restrain their Iranian-backed opponent.

...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.

Every being is in search of truth, but small fears go on preventing you.

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

Preventing conflict means going back to basics - strengthening institutions and building resilient societies.

If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.

I think the American people believe in stopping and preventing terrorism pretty much at any cost.

Being an educated consumer is the best way to shop for nutritious, disease-preventing foods.

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.

Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.

Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable.

Fiber has a beneficial effect in preventing colon cancer.

Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy.

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

Before I even came into office, I said that preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was a priority.