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In the frame are two sets of bars which interact with each other to prevent the operator from making dangerous moves.
Many of them hold that it is immoral to prohibit or prevent people from exercising these freedoms and that these freedoms are required to create a decent society where software users can help each other, and to have control over their computers.
To remain gravitationally bound to such a group, each member galaxy must have a sufficiently low velocity to prevent it from escaping ( see Virial theorem ).
Unlike ordinary stranded wire, the strands are insulated from each other, to prevent skin effect from forcing the current to the surface, and are braided together.
This helps prevent interrupt storms or live lock by having the hardware wait a programmable minimum amount of time between each interrupt it generates.
Soviet democracy nationalised industry and established a foreign-trade monopoly to allow the productive co-ordination of the national economy, and so prevent Russian national industries from competing against each other.
To prevent further murmurings and settle the matter permanently, Moses had each of the chief princes of the non-Levitic tribes write his name on his staff and had them lay them in the sanctuary.
They try throughout to deduce what is causing these strange occurrences, prevent each other from dying, and find a mysterious product called Ubik, which is advertised in every time period they enter.
The Correr relatives of Gregory XII in Venice and King Ladislaus of Naples, the supporter of Gregory XII and his predecessor for political reasons, used all their influence to prevent the meeting, and each Pope feared being captured by the party of the rival Pope.
In another model, for example used for routing automated guided vehicles ( AGVs ) on a terminal, reservations are made for each vehicle to prevent simultaneous use of the same part of an infrastructure.
The Speaker explains how Novinha blames herself for Pipo's death, and underwent a life of suffering and deception — marrying Marcão so that to prevent Libo from accessing the information which killed Pipo, but secretly trysting with Libo — because their love for each other never truly died.
To prevent one branch from becoming supreme, protect the " opulent minority " from the majority, and to induce the branches to cooperate, government systems that employ a separation of powers need a way to balance each of the branches.
In parapatric speciation, there is only partial separation of the zones of two diverging populations afforded by geography ; individuals of each species may come in contact or cross habitats from time to time, but reduced fitness of the heterozygote leads to selection for behaviours or mechanisms that prevent their inter-breeding.
Along with the microphone and speaker, additional circuitry is incorporated to prevent the incoming speaker signal and the outgoing microphone signal from interfering with each other.
This involved learning the intricacies of European diplomatic customs and then using the treaties to prevent a power from overstepping their agreement or by playing different powers against each other.
As with modern criminal gangs, each member of the group had his own function: the equivalent of the ' hit-man ,' ' the lookout ,' and the ' getaway driver ' would be those Thugs tasked with luring travelers with charming words or acting as guardian to prevent escape of victims while the killing took place.
Antiplatelet drugs prevent platelets from agglutinating or sticking to each other, hence the term " blood thinner.
The World Health Organization estimates that safe water could prevent 1. 4 million child deaths from diarrhea each year.
In addition, the components and features of each chunk must be bound together to prevent them from being mixed up.
EMC aims to ensure that equipment items or systems will not interfere with or prevent each other's correct operation through spurious emission and absorption of EMI.
Monnow Street is a typical market street, in being wide in the middle ( for those selling ) and narrow at each end, to help prevent livestock escaping.
As the shuttle moves back and forth across the shed, it weaves an edge, or selvage, on each side of the fabric to prevent the fabric from raveling.
In each of these cases appropriate drainage carries off temporary flushes of water to prevent damage to annual or perennial crops.
Thus, these sections supplement each other in an effort to prevent businesses from violating the spirit of the Act, while technically remaining within the letter of the law.
It noted that "… a post be also taken in the Highlands on each side of Hudson ’ s River and batteries erected in such a manner as will most effectually prevent any vessels passing that may be sent to harass the inhabitants on the borders of said river …"

prevent and triple
Virgil describes it in the Aeneid as a gigantic place, surrounded by the flaming river Phlegethon and triple walls to prevent sinners from escaping from it.
Occasionally, hospitals may apply triple dye to the umbilical stub to prevent infection, which may temporarily color the stub and surrounding skin purple.
Royal Dutch Shell has a much-publicized CSR policy and was a pioneer in triple bottom line reporting, but this did not prevent the 2004 scandal concerning its misreporting of oil reserves, which seriously damaged its reputation and led to charges of hypocrisy.
Other common features include: triple stitching with thicker treads to prevent ripping, more width so that there is more contact with the board with thicker tongues and sides to compensate, and deep sole patterns for grip.
The infield fly rule is a rule in baseball intended to prevent infielders from intentionally dropping pop-ups in order to turn double plays ( or triple plays ).
( Here it is assumed that there are limits that prevent the employment of a martingale system, or a variant thereof, such as each bet being triple the size of the last.
There is no way to shield ETC digital circuitry hardware from cosmic ray neutrons, so the only acceptable way to prevent this failure mode is to implement a minimum of triple redundancy in the digital electronics that comprise the ETC system.
Moreover, most triple selection machines have a spill tray, which can help prevent store owners from becoming annoyed at having to sweep up spilled candy.
In another case in Sweden, the 1988 Åmsele murders, the girlfriend was sentenced to two years for doing nothing to prevent Juha Valjakkala from committing a triple murder.

prevent and emergency
An additional risk in a fire is that doors may prevent access to emergency services personnel in order to fight the fire, rescue occupants, etc.
Emergency contraception ( EC ), or emergency postcoital contraception, are birth control measures that, if taken after sexual intercourse, may prevent pregnancy.
* Emergency contraceptive pills ( ECPs )— sometimes simply referred to as emergency contraceptives ( ECs ) or the " morning-after pill "— are drugs intended to disrupt ovulation or fertilization, which are steps necessary for pregnancy ( contraceptives ).< ref name =" Trussell 2011 "> p. 121: Mechanism of actionCopper-releasing IUCsWhen used as a regular or emergency method of contraception, copper-releasing IUCs act primarily to prevent fertilization.
Emergency insertion of a copper IUC is significantly more effective than the use of ECPs, reducing the risk of pregnancy following unprotected intercourse by more than 99 %.< sup > 2, 3 </ sup > This very high level of effectiveness implies that emergency insertion of a copper IUC must prevent some pregnancies after fertilization. Emergency contraceptive pillsTo make an informed choice, women must know that ECPs — like the birth control pill, patch, ring, shot, and implant ,< sup > 76 </ sup > and even like breastfeeding < sup > 77 </ sup >— prevent pregnancy primarily by delaying or inhibiting ovulation and inhibiting fertilization, but may at times inhibit implantation of a fertilized egg in the endometrium.
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.
Therefore reactors have emergency core cooling systems to keep the temperature down, shielding to contain the radiation, and engineered barriers ( usually several, nested, surmounted by a containment building ) to prevent accidental leakage.
The National Emergencies Act grants various powers to the president during times of emergency, and was intended to prevent a president from declaring a state of emergency of indefinite duration.
People argue that free trade does not prevent a nation from establishing some sort of emergency plan to become temporarily self-sufficient in case of war or that a nation could simply acquire what it needs from a different nation.
Emergency medical services ( abbreviated to the initialism EMS in some countries ) are a type of emergency service dedicated to providing out-of-hospital acute medical care, transport to definitive care, and other medical transport to patients with illnesses and injuries which prevent the patient from transporting themselves.
They are taught about how to respond to a premature deployment of their parachute in the aircraft, the need to push their static line into the hands of the safety or jumpmaster to prevent the line from becoming entangled around the next jumper and proper procedures in case the aircraft has an emergency.
For example, some UK ambulance crews have complained that hospitals were deliberately leaving patients with ambulance crews to prevent an Accident and Emergency department ( A & E, or emergency room ) target time for treatment from starting to run.
* Medical emergency teams-These teams respond to all emergencies, with the aim of treating the patient in the acute phase of their illness in order to prevent a cardiac arrest.
When the elevated body temperatures are sufficiently high, hyperthermia is a medical emergency and requires immediate treatment to prevent disability or death.
The reason for enlisting emergency logistics services could be a production delay or anticipated production delay, or it could be that specialist equipment is needed urgently to prevent instances such as aircraft being grounded ( also known as " aircraft on ground "-- AOG ), ships being delayed, or telecommunications failure.
In order to prevent disabled ships and barges from grounding and causing possible oil spills in the western Strait of Juan de Fuca or off the outer coast, the state funded an emergency response tug stationed at Neah Bay.
Some commonly cited exigent circumstances are: hot pursuit of a felon ( to prevent a felon's escape or ability to harm others ); imminent destruction of evidence before a warrant can be properly obtained ; emergency searches ( such as where someone is heard screaming for help inside a dwelling ); or a search incident to arrest ( to mitigate the risk of harm to the arresting officers specifically ).
To promote safety standards, and by doing so, prevent, as far as possible, the loss of life at sea and on inland waters and other areas, and to provide an effective emergency response service.
The provision of a card that allows sufferers to make emergency contact with counselling services should the urge to self-harm arise may also help prevent the act of self-harm.
It was later revealed that the decision to withdraw had been agreed at an emergency meeting during the day between Norman Lamont, Prime Minister John Major, Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine and Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke ( the latter three all being strong pro-Europeans as well as senior Cabinet Ministers ), and that the interest rate hike to 15 percent had only been a temporary measure to prevent a rout in the pound that afternoon.
He locked exits, concealed others with draperies, and even bricked up one emergency exit to prevent customers from leaving without paying.

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