Under this interpretation, there may be cases where the mentally ill know that their conduct is legally prohibited, but it is arguable that their mental condition prevents them making the connection between an act being legally prohibited and the societal requirement to conform their conduct to the requirements of the criminal law.

The law of passing off prevents one person from misrepresenting his or her goods or services as being the goods and services of the claimant, and also prevents one person from holding out his or her goods or services as having some association or connection with the plaintiff when this is not true.

IP address blocking prevents the connection between a server or website and certain IP addresses or ranges of addresses.

Some rotation can occur between the thoracic vertebrae, but their connection with the rib cage prevents much flexion or other excursion.

This arrangement prevents the signal from injecting currents into the ground connection, which might upset other circuits attached to it.

The solder wets the exposed metallic areas of the board ( those not protected with solder mask, a protective coating that prevents the solder from bridging between connections ), creating a reliable mechanical and electrical connection.

# The practice developed from the Pseudo-Jonathan translation of the Bible on Deuteronomy 24: 6, where he writes that anyone who prevents the connection between a husband and wife forfeits his portion in the world-to-come.

The connection of the P implantation to the source metallization shorts the base of the parasitic transistor to its emitter ( the source of the MOSFET ) and thus prevents spurious latching.

To perpetuate wealth control led by small groups of individuals who played no role in its creation prevents those with real initiative from coming to the fore, and is basically anti-democratic.

Since the Connally amendment has the effect of giving the same right to the other party to a dispute with the United States, it also prevents us from using the court effectively.

Stirring, he said: `` I am sorry that my work prevents me from doing anything with you today ''.

This section prevents the military departments and the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization from carrying out certain transactions involving real property unless they come into agreement with the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

it prevents late-comers from missing some of the people they have come a long way to hear, and it gives the resident musicians a chance to perform before the famous Newport audience.

It was the development of the amniotic egg, which prevents the developing embryo from drying out, that enabled the reptiles to reproduce on land and which led to their dominance in the period that followed.

He suffers from sea sickness, and in Death in the Clouds believes that his air sickness prevents him from being more alert at the time of the murder.

She has a maid called Maria who prevents the public adoration from becoming too much of a burden on her employer, but does nothing to prevent her from becoming too much of a burden on others.

From time to time there has been debate over repealing the clause that prevents " Papists " ( Roman Catholics ) or those who marry one from ascending to the British throne.

Also, in the real world, quark confinement prevents quarks from being separated by more than microscopic distances.

Through the sacrament a gift of the Holy Spirit is given, that renews confidence and faith in God and strengthens against temptations to discouragement, despair and anguish at the thought of death and the struggle of death ; it prevents from losing Christian hope in God's justice, truth and salvation.

p53 prevents the cell from replicating by stopping the cell cycle at G1, or interphase, to give the cell time to repair, however it will induce apoptosis if damage is extensive and repair efforts fail.

They can be exported in the apoptotic bodies that pinch off from the surface of the dying cell and the fact that they are engulfed by phagocytes prevents the initiation of a host response.

Meanwhile, acrylic paint is very elastic, which prevents cracking from occurring.

That this day coincides with Christian Sabbath is not a bar to the state's secular goals ; it neither reduces its effectiveness for secular purposes nor prevents adherents of other religions from observing their own holy days.

* Roy Batty: The man which Tyrell used as the template for his combat replicants is in fact a man of considerable instability, suffering from a brain disorder that prevents him from experiencing fear.

Substantial summer rainfall prevents its climate from being classified as Mediterranean.

An intentional foul that causes injury that prevents a fight from continuing usually causes the boxer who committed it to be disqualified.

The Gibeonites trick the Israelites into entering into an alliance with them by saying they are not Canaanites ; this prevents the Israelites from exterminating them, but they are enslaved instead.

The Red Sox are consistently one of the top MLB teams in average road attendance, while the small capacity of Fenway Park prevents them from leading in overall attendance.

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping.

The Museum has also argued that the British Museum Act of 1963 legally prevents any object from leaving its collection once it has entered it.

In the Halo franchise, the weak, low-ranking Grunts of the Covenant originate on a frozen exoplanet named Balaho, where methane is a primary constituent of the atmosphere, prevents the planet becoming even more frigid than it already is due to its distance from its parent star, and thus, Grunts have evolved to utilize the gas for respiration.

The goal of Dianetics is to remove the " reactive mind ", which Scientologists believe prevents people from becoming more ethical, more aware, happier and saner.

This prevents a system from becoming self-referential.

This prevents the server and its network connections from becoming a bottleneck.

The chillfiltering prevents the whisky from becoming hazy when in the bottle, when served, when chilled, or when water or ice is added.

( Wartime censorship prevents the story from becoming public.

There are proponents of cobdenism who claim that by removing tariffs and creating international free trade, wars would become impossible, because free trade prevents a nation from becoming self-sufficient, which is a requirement for long wars.

In one episode it is revealed that the Gorgs use radishes to make " anti-vanishing cream " that prevents them from becoming invisible.

The safest ones have a flared base which remains outside the body, that prevents the toy from becoming irretrievable.

" Once the absurd and the patently false have been established, the serious emotions and ideas which are explored have been given a setting which prevents them from ever becoming too serious ".

( This example does not prevent a network from becoming the target of Smurf attack ; it merely prevents the network from " attacking " other networks, or, better said, taking part in a Smurf attack.

Along the way he subsequently ends up inventing several things that are considered Australian Icons in the real world, for example beer soup ( vegemite ), putting corks on a string round his hat to keep flies off ( a common Australian outback hat stereotype ), as well as becoming the subject of a ballad that is hinted at being a parody of the song " Waltzing Matilda " when he is caught apparently stealing a sheep by a billabong. A gigantic circular storm surrounding Fourecks prevents any ships from leaving, however.

Fibrinolysis is a process that prevents blood clots from growing and becoming problematic.

This prevents it from becoming a practical power source.

* it prevents non-spectral personnel from having to cross the stage in the dark, falling into the orchestra pit, dying in the fall and becoming ghosts themselves.

The hypodermic needle reduces contamination for two reasons: First, its surface is extremely smooth, which prevents airborne pathogens from becoming trapped between irregularities on the needle's surface, which would subsequently be transferred into our media ( i. e. agar ) as contaminants ; second, the needle's surface is extremely sharp, which significantly reduces the diameter of the hole remaining after puncturing the membrane, which consequently prevents microbes larger than this hole from contaminating the substrate.

In The Art of Discworld, Pratchett explains that Vimes protects himself from the Beast with the symbol of his own badge, which prevents him from becoming the criminal he despises, at least in his own mind.

This eventually reaches the logical conclusion of the prey becoming the predators, and it is only the intervention of the Voyager crew that prevents the Hirogen's utter extermination.

This prevents the mask from becoming dislodged or the glass damaged.

While this decision prevents Lindsay's power play from becoming ugly, it temporarily causes some tension when Bobby and Lindsay later become romantically involved, potentially creating a voting block.

The anti-twister mechanism is a method of connecting a flexible link between two objects, one of which is rotating with respect to the other, in a way that prevents the link from becoming permanently twisted.