#preventing

We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe. ↗

— Jack Reed

#army #around #breaking #confront #crises

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets. ↗

— P. D. James

#credible #especially #guilty #motives #mysteries

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#actions #bad #been #doing #doing good

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#consists #enjoying #generally #greatest #greatest pleasure

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

— Morarji Desai

#beings #believe #cruelty #form #i

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

— Leon Kass

#cloning #interested #must #preventing #process

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule. ↗

— Robert Welch

#american republic #constitution #deliberate #division #emphatic

We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safety or mission success - many pathways to do that. We need to understand better what may be preventing people from using those pathways. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#affects #anything #better #constantly #emphasizing

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

— Paul Valery

#business #own #people #politics #preventing

Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#certain #certainty #chance #could #good