10 sentences with “prevented”

The high price of the shoes prevented me from buying them.

The opacity of the glass that protected it prevented the beauty and brilliance of the valuable gem from being appreciated.

A series of reforms in Britain, however, prevented a revolution along continental lines.

English forces tended to be better organised than French forces, so even France's much greater wealth and size prevented great English victories.

At that time there were a lot of received notions and prejudices, especially against working with human cadavers, which prevented large-scale experimentation.

Only the Russian invasion had prevented Hungary from achieving independence, and the Italian uprisings against Austria had only been contained with great difficulty.

The alleged Atlantic island, being in the path of the Gulf Stream, prevented the warm Gulf Stream from reaching the Arctic and would have been the cause of a glacial period.

In a famous episode early in Justinian's reign, his wife Theodora prevented Justinian and his advisors from fleeing a mass riot against his rule, inspiring Justinian instead to order a counter-attack that might well have saved his reign.

This event prevented what might well have been a Mongol push into Central Europe itself; the Pope at the time called for an anti-Mongol crusade and Europeans who understood the extent of the threat were terrified at the prospect of the Mongols marching further west. In reality, the Mongols never returned.

However, as soon as the war ended, men generally did their best to reverse many of the changes in gender roles it had caused. Through a combination of legal restrictions and quasi-legal practices, women were forced out of traditional male jobs, prevented from enrolling in universities and medical schools, and paid far less than men for the same work.