Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

They fought hard, but they were forgiving to former foes, and sought to prevent vindictive legislatures from confiscating Tory property in violation of the Treaty of 1783.

The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.

But that did not prevent him from writing more long letters, or from coming to spend his Christmas vacations with the hospitable, lively Szolds in their pleasant house on Lombard Street.

The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.

For example, he captured some persons from York County, who with teams were taking to Philadelphia the furniture of a man who had just been released from prison through the efforts of his wife, and who apparently was helpless to prevent the theft of his household goods.

It is a publishing and public relations center, but these very facts prevent it from being a literary center because writers dislike provincialism and untruth.

There remains, of course, the question of what the West can do beyond diplomatic protest to prevent the illegal efforts from becoming accomplished facts.

In designing his home fallout shelter there is nothing to prevent a man from planning to shelter that home's occupants, `` plus-one '' -- so he will be able to take in a stranger.

Heavy-coated, severe-looking policemen sat astride noble horses along the curbside to prevent the revellers from spilling out in front of the crawling traffic.

Spherical concave backing surfaces support the diaphragm when excessive pressures are applied and prevent the stresses within the diaphragm from exceeding the elastic limit.

and second, to increase uniformly the allotments to those States whose allotments are below their maximums, with adjustments to prevent the allotment of any State from thereby exceeding its maximum.

The purpose of the adjusted Federal share relating to the base allotment and of the transition provisions for reaching the unadjusted Federal share is to prevent dislocations from abrupt changes in matching rates.

The Government of India agrees that it will take all possible measures to prevent the resale or transshipment to other countries or the use for other than domestic purposes ( except where such resale, transshipment or use is specifically approved by the Government of the United States of America ), of the surplus agricultural commodities purchased pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, and to assure that the purchase of such commodities does not result in increased availability of these or like commodities for export from India.

In the frame are two sets of bars which interact with each other to prevent the operator from making dangerous moves.

This will prevent the clay from twisting or bending, causing warping when fired.

The return spring tension may be adjusted to suit individual requirements by gripping the spring housing with a pair of pliers ( to prevent the spring from unwinding when it is released ), loosening the lock nut or screw, and rotating the housing until the desired tension is achieved.

( We do, however, recommend those patented covers to prevent both people and junk -- flora and fauna generally -- from accidentally wintering in the pool.

The bubble was filled to the top and special precautions were taken to prevent any sample from remaining in the capillary.

These subjects implied that they too could prevent their arms from rising if they tried.

To prevent the manager from deliberately controlling himself only during the sessions, they were rather lengthy ( about twenty minutes ), the situations were imperfectly described to the manager so that he would not know what to expect, new antagonists were brought on the scene unexpectedly, and the antagonists were instructed to deliberately behave in such ways as to upset the manager and get him to operate in a manner for which he had been previously criticized.

Although the elections were for local officials, it was not necessary to conduct the elections so as to prevent parties from publicly identifying their candidates.

The anti-assignment statute was held not to prevent the American corporation from suing for a refund of taxes paid by the British corporation.

Although local police were surprised by the size of N30, law enforcement agencies have since reacted worldwide to prevent the disruption of future events by a variety of tactics, including sheer weight of numbers, infiltrating the groups to determine their plans, and preparations for the use of force to remove protesters.

For pathological and biological research, the specimen usually undergoes a complex histological preparation that may involve cutting it into very thin sections with a microtome, fixing it to prevent decay, removing any water contained in it, staining specific parts of it, and impregnating or infiltrating it with some transparent solid substance.

The island was considered so vital to the war effort that in 1942, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, special identification cards were issued to workers to prevent saboteurs from infiltrating it.

There was however, nothing to prevent infiltrating through this outer ring and the ERP were still strong inside Buenos Aires.

To prevent Germans from infiltrating the prisoner population, newcomers to the camp had to be personally vouched for by two existing POWs who knew the prisoner by sight.

Deadlier escalation followed in 1978 when the SADF began crossing into Angola to strike at SWAPO positions ; such actions were justified as necessary to prevent would-be ' freedom fighters ' from infiltrating south into Ovamboland.

The top of the water tank is usually closed to prevent vapour from infiltrating the banya.

Interviews with several church leaders have disclosed that this development has raised the question whether the Peace Corps will be able to prevent confusion for church and state over methods, means and goals.

That remained the state of affairs until the late 1960s when Harald Loe ( at the time a professor at the Royal Dental College in Aarhus, Denmark ) demonstrated that a chlorhexidine compound could prevent the build-up of dental plaque.

Alexander, a critic of the government, hopes to use Alex as a symbol of state brutality and thereby prevent the incumbent government from being re-elected.

The Whigs thought Andrew Johnson a dangerous prospect as a United States Senator, and made it a priority to prevent his election by the state legislature.

* 1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western " guests " ( actually hostages ) to try to prevent the Gulf War.

The language used by this approach is primarily negative, and the tathāgatagarbha genre of sutras can be seen as an attempt to state orthodox Buddhist teachings of dependent origination using positive language instead, to prevent people from being turned away from Buddhism by a false impression of nihilism.

The APA guidelines state that, in general, pharmacotherapy of panic disorder should be continued for at least a year, and that clinical experience support continuing benzodiazepine treatment to prevent recurrence.

Xavier quickly tells her to remain in her diamond armor state to prevent the Void from gaining access to her psi-powers.

Until this German Federal legislation was introduced, there were no recognised mechanism to prevent administrators in private bodies and civil servants in public-funded bodies ( such as universities ) from automatically discriminating between the qualifications of people with German doctorates compared to holders of doctorates from an EU member state.

For example, primary explosives are so sensitive that they need to be stored and shipped in a wet state to prevent accidental initiation.

* positive, meaning that they require active provision of entitlements by the state ( as opposed to the state being required only to prevent the breach of rights )

A recent alternative criterion for the Cassie – Baxter state asserts that the Cassie – Baxter state exists when the following 2 criteria are met: 1 ) Contact line forces overcome body forces of unsupported droplet weight and 2 ) The microstructures are tall enough to prevent the liquid that bridges microstructures from touching the base of the microstructures.

In Thailand hate speech ( การส ื่ อสารซ ึ่ งม ี เจตนาทางเกล ี ยดช ั ง or การพ ู ดซ ึ่ งม ี เจตนาทางเกล ี ยดช ั งให ้ เก ิ ดการเกล ี ยดช ั งอ ี กฝ ่ ายหน ึ่ ง ), transliterated as เฮทสป ี ช, is prohibited in civil and criminal statutes, but state machinery and society as a whole generally do little to prevent it or prosecute parties promoting or engaging in hate speech.

In an attempt gone wrong by his teammate Mystique to prevent Aurora from killing the others, Iceman was able to stop Aurora by putting her into a cryo sleep while still in his gaseous state.

Next, power supplies should be locked in the off state and tagged to prevent unauthorized energizing.

Although Robinson adopted an insulin injection regimen, the state of medicine at the time could not prevent continued deterioration of Robinson's physical condition from the disease.

The phage genes expressed in this dormant state code for proteins that repress expression of other phage genes ( such as the structural and lysis genes ) in order to prevent entry into the lytic cycle.

As part of the state of emergency, and to prevent independent reporting of events, the government shut off Internet access and some mobile telephony services to Maldives on August 13 and 14, 2004.

The Electress demanded in no uncertain terms that the Queen Dowager should prevent her son's journey, as " being prejudicial to Brandenburg's interests in view of the state of war existing between Sweden and Poland ".

It was held that, as the defendant had been aware of his actions, he could neither have been in a state of automatism nor insane, and the fact that he believed that God had told him to do this merely provided an explanation of his motive and did not prevent him from knowing that what he was doing was wrong in the legal sense.

To prevent the Austro-Hungarian problems of different nationalities within one state, the government tried to Germanize the state's national minorities, situated mainly in the borders of the empire, such as the Danes in the North of Germany, the French of Alsace-Lorraine and the Poles in the East of Germany.

Rome was now the most powerful state in the western Mediterranean: its large navy able to prevent seaborne invasion of Italy, control important sea trade routes, and invade foreign shores.