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

They felt that they were relaxing as much as they could and that any control factors which might be present to prevent response must be on an unconscious level.

( Pp. 228-229 ) in any event, it is obvious that the anti-trust laws did not prevent the formation of some of the greatest financial empires the world has ever known, held together by some of the most fantastic ideas, all based on the fundamental notion that a corporation is an individual who can trade and exchange goods without control by the government ''.

The Republican Party was determined to prevent any spread of slavery, and many Southern leaders had threatened secession if the Republican candidate, Lincoln, won the 1860 election.

The prohibition against retaliation or coercion applies broadly to any individual or entity that seeks to prevent an individual from exercising his or her rights or to retaliate against him or her for having exercised those rights ... Any form of retaliation or coercion, including threats, intimidation, or interference, is prohibited if it is intended to interfere.

The Egyptians then opened up the Nile dams and let the river flood, hoping to prevent Amalric from invading any further.

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Spencer thought any attempt to prevent “ the really salutary sufferings ” of the less fortunate “ bequeath to posterity a continually increasing curse ”.

Bibulus, whom Pompey had appointed to command his 600-ship fleet, set up a massive blockade to prevent Caesar from crossing to Greece and to prevent any aid to Italy.

Now prepared, Bibulus managed to prevent any further ships from crossing, but died soon afterwards.

In simpler term, Biotechnology is the research and development in the laboratory that involves bioinformatics for exploration, extraction, exploitation and production from any living organisms and any source of biomass by means of biochemical engineering where high value-added products could be planned ( reproduced by Biosynthesis, for example ), fore-casted, formulated, developed, manufactured and marketed for the purpose of sustainable operations ( for the return from bottomless initial investment on R & D ) and gaining durable patents rights ( for exclusives rights for sales, and prior to this to receive national and international approval from the results on animal experiment and human experiment, especially on the pharmaceutical branch of biotechnology to prevent any undetected side-effects on safety concerns by using the products ), for more about the biotechnology industry, see.

As a result, any possible preventive effect of the common official warning was cancelled by the mixed unofficial signals, and failed to prevent or to stop the war:

Throughout the shuffle, cut, and deal, the dealer should prevent the players from seeing the faces of any of the cards.

No gains in income could prevent this, and any welfare for the poor would be self-defeating.

However, classical liberals rejected Adam Smith's belief that the " invisible hand " would lead to general benefits and embraced Thomas Malthus ' view that population expansion would prevent any general benefit and David Ricardo's view of the inevitability of class conflict.

The Journal of the National Cancer Institute and The New England Journal of Medicine published articles in 1996 about a trial that was conducted to determine if vitamin A ( in the form of retinyl palmitate ) and β-carotene had any beneficial effects to prevent cancer.

Filter administrators may prefer to err on the side of caution by accepting over blocking to prevent any risk of access to sites that they determine to be undesirable.

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration regulates this practice by attempting to prevent the introduction of any part of a cow's brain or spinal cord into livestock feed.

During an interview with NME Magazine, he shot and killed a squirrel with a pellet gun to prevent any further damage to his electrical system in the attic at the location the interview was held.

The surplus, if any, had to be eaten quickly to prevent spoiling.

In 1533, Rumiñahui, burned the city to prevent the Spanish from taking it, thereby destroying any traces of the ancient pre-Hispanic city.

However, in the untyped lambda calculus, there's no way to prevent our function from being applied to truth values, or strings, for instance.

In his essay, Overcoming Practical Difficulties in Creating a World Parliamentary Assembly, Joseph E. Schwartzberg proposes the use of proportional representation in the United Nations Parliamentary Assembly in order to prevent, for instance, lower castes of Indians from being excluded.

It is coherent, for instance, to add the involvement of Leprechauns to any explanation, but Occam's razor would prevent such additions, unless they were necessary.

Clothes are folded to allow them to be stored compactly, to prevent creasing, to preserve creases or to present them in a more pleasing manner, for instance when they are put on sale in stores.

For instance, on 21 July 1995 a libel case brought by Neil Hamilton ( then a member of parliament ) against The Guardian was stopped after Justice May ruled that the Bill of Rights ' prohibition on the courts ' ability to question parliamentary proceedings would prevent The Guardian from obtaining a fair trial.

For instance, Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater have argued that the relatively fast-changing nature of language would prevent the slower-changing genetic structures from ever catching up, undermining the possibility of a genetically hard-wired universal grammar.

For instance, curbs and rumble strips can be used to keep traffic in a given lane and median barriers can prevent left turns and even U-turns.

For instance, those affected with NF 2 might benefit from a surgical decompression of the vestibular tumors to prevent deafness.

For instance, health education programs, improved water sanitation, improved hygiene and de-worming of hosts, in particular, red foxes, are all ways in which a country can prevent and control the spread of alveolar echinococcosis.

Rotating government officials to different positions and geographic areas may help prevent this ; for instance certain high rank officials in French government services ( e. g. treasurer-paymasters general ) must rotate every few years.

Diamond describes the small number of domesticated species ( 14 out of 148 " candidates ") as an instance of the Anna Karenina principle: many promising species have just one of several significant difficulties that prevent domestication.

For instance, XLR connectors have a notch to ensure proper orientation, while Mini-DIN plugs have a plastic projection, which fits into a corresponding hole in the socket and prevent different connectors from being pushed together ( they also have a notched metal skirt to provide secondary keying ).

A " dead man's switch " can be used as a fail-deadly instrument, for instance a switch which must be constantly held to prevent the triggering of an explosive.

" For instance, using discreet codes for sexual assault, homicide, suicide and other such situations can prevent the victim and family from having to hear the description being broadcast to all within earshot.

For instance, they are used in stand-alone (" off-grid ") photovoltaic ( PV ) systems to prevent batteries from discharging through the solar panels at night, and in grid-connected systems with multiple strings connected in parallel, in order to prevent reverse current flowing from adjacent strings through shaded strings if the bypass diodes have failed.

For instance, during his time in the state legislature, Abraham Lincoln leapt out of a first story window ( the doors of the Capitol had been locked to prevent legislators from fleeing ) in a failed attempt to prevent a quorum from being present.

If courts, for instance, should prevent a man from breathing any air which had been breathed by another ( within, say a reasonable statute of limitations ), those individuals who breathed most vigorously and were quickest and wisest in selecting desirable locations in which to breathe ( or made the most advantageous contracts with such individuals ) would, by virtue of their property right in certain volumes of air, come to exercise and enjoy a peculiar economic advantage, which might, through various modes of economic exchange, be turned into other forms of economic advantage, e. g., the ownership of newspapers or fine clothing.

In one instance, security researchers showed that attackers could obtain certificates for webmail sites because a CA was willing to use an email address like < tt > SSLCertificates @ domain. com </ tt > for domain. com, but not all webmail systems had reserved the " SSLCertificates " username to prevent attackers from registering it.

The term can also refer to measures taken to resolve a specific economic crisis, for instance an exchange-rate crisis or stock market crash, in order to prevent the economy developing recession or inflation.

A counter-argument is that only a tiny fraction of humans could do this — and they would be self-selected by ability to do technological escalation on others ( for instance, the ability to create large spacecraft to flee the planet in, and simultaneously fend off others who seek to prevent them ).

For instance, an error message preventing an entry of a received raw material quantity exceeding the purchase order quantity by greater than the permissible tolerance percentage will always be displayed and will prevent the system user from entering such a quantity.

Either contestant could also elect to " freeze " their position if they were unsure of the next card ; this would both prevent the opponent from playing and reset the contestant's base card to the frozen card and whatever cards that were turned in that instance were not discarded.

In one notable instance, WFFF-TV in Burlington, Vermont constantly re-scheduled its daily airings of That 70's Show in order to prevent CJNT-TV in Montreal from invoking the rule.