Nips in the bud

Usage examples of prevents.

The small pedicle or cord-like mass of vessels that supplies the tumor, are then carefully treated after a plan invented by, and peculiar to, ourselves, which effectually prevents any bleeding, and, at the same time, does not leave any irritating substance, such as burned and charred flesh, rubber, silk, or any other unabsorbable material, within the abdomen.

Between the large and the small intestine is a valve, which prevents the return of excrementitious matter that has passed into the large intestine.

Undue expenditure of this class of brain functions not only consumes the bodily powers, but exhausts and prevents other mental operations.

Masturbation prevents the excitability of the nervous system and sexual organs and causes debility, which is indicated by the premature discharge of semen during sexual intercourse.

Koran, in waging war against the infidels, is the sole consideration that prevents us from destroying thy country, the frontier and bulwark of the Moslem world.

It stands in the way, and prevents the adjustment, and the giving of necessary attention to other questions of national house-keeping.

President alone prevents the Senate from attaching conditions to its approval of an appointment, such as it may do to its approval of a treaty.

In the employment of officials and teachers of the school system, the state may very properly inquire into the company they keep, and we know of no rule, constitutional or otherwise, that prevents the state, when determining the fitness and loyalty of such persons, from considering the organizations and persons with whom they associate.

Fourth Amendment that warrants shall particularly describe the things to be seized makes general searches under them impossible and prevents the seizure of one thing under a warrant describing another.

State tribunal which prevents a recovery of taxes imposed in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States by invoking a State law limiting suits to recover taxes alleged to have been assessed illegally to taxes paid at the time and in the manner provided by said law.

And the scarcity of money prevents us from doing much business, but we are obliged to pay our workmen all the same.

The antipathy communicated to the metal by its being soaked for a certain time in an alkaline solution prevents impregnation.

I am sure that your repentance for having humiliated me is sincere, and I hope in your turn that you will forgive me or pity me, if my way of thinking prevents me from conforming to yours.

Virtue goes rather too far when it prevents a girl giving the man who adores her a single kiss.

It is true you do not know him, since he is here unknown, and that prevents your thinking about the matter!