A non-star quarterback on a winning team may be called a " game manager " if he avoids making mistakes that prevent his team's defense and rushing offenses from succeeding.

In December 1973, long term manager Ted Bates stood down to be replaced by Lawrie McMenemy who was unable to prevent The Saints becoming the first victims of the new 3-down relegation system in 1974 when they were relegated, along with Manchester United and Norwich City.

Succeeded by promising non-league manager Lee Sinnott, the new man proved unable to prevent the club from sliding into League Two after a 23rd – place finish, as well as crashing out to Chasetown ( an 8th tiered club ) in the FA Cup.

On 10 June 2007, Owen's new manager at Newcastle, Sam Allardyce, confirmed the existence of the release clause in Owen's contract and admitted he feared that the club would be powerless to prevent Owen from leaving.

A year later, new manager Gary Proctor was unable to prevent relegation to Division Two.

A posting from a person claiming to be David Higginbottom, Prentice's campaign manager in the last election, said, " It is unfortunate that at a time when Conservatives need to be working together to prevent what is a desperate power play by the opposition to seize control of our democratically elected government, that a site like this would be created.

He was replaced by Graeme Souness but the change of manager was not enough to prevent the league title from slipping away from Anfield.

However, current form is to have the manager or a coach relay the pitch selection to the catcher, via secret hand signals to prevent the opposing team from having the advantage of knowing what the next pitch will be.

Former Liverpool defender Mark Lawrenson was named as Oxford's new manager, but was unable to prevent relegation to the Second Division.

However, current form is to have the manager or a coach relay the pitch selection to the catcher, via secret hand signals to prevent the opposing team from having the advantage of knowing what the next pitch will be.

In December 1993, Ferguson agreed a deal with Everton manager Howard Kendall, that would have seen Dublin moving to Goodison Park, but a member of Everton's board of directors, apparently feeling that Dublin was not worth the money Kendall had offered United, intervened to prevent the transfer going through – this incident led directly to Kendall's resignation as Everton manager and Dublin ended up staying at Old Trafford until the end of the season.

' The restaurant manager arrived on the scene just in time to prevent the two women from coming to blows ".

However, the band's road crew outsmarted the fire marshals by removing the pyro props quickly after they used them in the shows to prevent the band from being banned and also according to Mason's book since their manager had an Irish name ( Steve O ' Rourke ), the band escaped being arrested.

The early replacement of coach Giorgos Paraschos by established manager Fernando Santos did little to prevent a ninth place finish in the league, the worst performance by the club in 11 years.

On 22 January 1986, Bond was appointed manager of Birmingham City and failed to prevent their relegation from Division One, seven consecutive defeats at the end of the season sealing their fate.

He scored 12 goals in 37 games during the 1987-88 season ( during which Maurice Evans was dismissed as manager and replaced by Mark Lawrenson ) but it was not enough to prevent Oxford from going down in bottom place after three seasons in the top flight.

As manager, Crowe was unable to prevent Villa being relegated when he took charge towards the end of the 1969 – 70 season.

The three departments do not all report to the same senior manager, to prevent unethical practices and lend credibility to the process.

When The Byrds arrived in England for their first British tour that summer, The Birds ' manager, Leo de Clerck, took legal action to prevent them from using the name ; the action failed, amid a flurry of national press and television coverage.

Villa hired Martin O ' Neill as manager in August 2006, and he and Laursen came to an understanding of giving Laursen the freedom to train as he wanted, which helped prevent further injuries.

While his contribution failed to prevent their relegation, it clearly attracted favourable attention, for the following March Sheffield United manager Steve Bruce brought him to England where he signed for a fee of £ 200, 000.

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.

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.