Example Sentences

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The SEC had been preventing its own coaches from satellite camp participation, but the league’s athletic directors voted last year to drop that restriction if no NCAA-wide prohibition was instituted.

From Washington Times • May 4, 2016

Carlos Beltran said before Sunday’s game against the Boston Red Sox that stiffness in his right forearm had been preventing him from throwing.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2014

At Tripoli's Rixos hotel where loyalist gunmen had been preventing nearly 40 foreigners, mostly journalists, from leaving, gunmen relented on Wednesday and let them go.

From Reuters • Aug. 25, 2011