The idea is to help keep a competitive balance by preventing the wealthiest teams from getting all the good players.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

All actions aim at preservation or change, at making something better or preventing it from becoming worse.

所有行动都是为了维持或者改变，为了让事物变得更美好,为了不让它变得糟糕。

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Now it's different in important ways because it's really focused at preventing the collapse of the economy that is created by a financial system failure.

现在，这个不同有很重要的意义,因为它真正专注于,阻止被金融系统的失败而引发的,经济的崩溃。

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The new proposal calls for rules barring service providers from preventing users from sending and receiving legal information of any kind.

VOA: special.2010.08.20

Sometimes they inhibit by just preventing the ligand from interacting with its receptor.

有时它们只是,干扰配体和受体的相互作用

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The vaccine has already proven effective at preventing the disease in half of those vaccinated which is more than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

As Dero says, " "soul grows more by subtraction than by addition", by getting rid of these limitations, limitations that are preventing us from fulfilling our potential.

就像俗话说的那样，“做减法比做加法让灵魂成长得更快，减法包括除去那些，阻碍我们发挥潜能的限制。

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"It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms.

VOA: special.2011.05.19

This is maybe not widely appreciated, but every decade that goes by we do a better job of incentvizing people and preventing them from being discouraged by risks.

也许在当下，一些措施看似并非有效，但若以十年跨度回望,我们所采取的措施确实能有效地激励人们,并且防止他们因风险受挫。

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The researchers say estimating and preventing early deaths in adults is just as important as improving child survival.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

In fact, the United Kingdom has been an international model for preventing bank runs because the Bank of England would always lend to a bank that was in trouble in order to keep them out of the problem.

事实上,英国一直是全球,预防银行挤兑的模范,因为英格兰银行总会借款,给陷入危机的银行以确保它们脱离险境

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However,scientists say a slow earthquake could be helping to release pressure, and possibly preventing more powerful quakes.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

That involves preventing industrial gases from escaping into the atmosphere where they can trap heat.

VOA: special.2009.11.21

She says the pouch is an important tool for preventing the spread of H.I.V.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

Another way Republicans kept controlin the South was by preventing whites from voting there.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

It would also provide training for local police in preventing violence against women.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

Preventing the spread of weeds is an important part of weed management.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

Some medicines are generally effective in preventing and treating malaria.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

Lieutenant Eakins says it could be useful in preventing crimes such as burglaries in Palm Bay's dispersed residential communities.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

The case is seen as a pretext for extending her detention and preventing her from participating in next year's elections.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

"My strong belief is that it may in the long run save more money, that we're preventing a lot of tuberculosis."

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

With nearly eight percent of pregnant women in the capital testing HIV positive, preventing mother-to-child transmission is especially important.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

Jones says Indonesia needs to focus more on intelligence work and preventing the recruitment of new militants through education and community involvement.

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

WHO reports that although counterfeit drugs are sold globally, rich countries are better at policing and preventing sales.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

For their part, the squatters hope to take advantage of a French law preventing authorities from evicting tenants during the winter months.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

The Gators were 13-1 for the season, with only a loss to Mississippi preventing them from going undefeated.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

He says the South needs to focus any talks on preventing a repeat of such an incident.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

"So it's a huge program, but the effects of that program are just enormous in preventing disability."

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

president has done so. He told the council that the United Nations has a "pivotal role to play" in preventing a nuclear crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

In addition to cutting utilities and preventing supplies from going into the embassy, he said they have curtailed the movements of Brazilian diplomats.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25