Jews were not allowed to buy and own property and to prevent any of their community from converting to Christianity.

However, he could not prevent his suffragan bishop Engelbrecht from converting to the new faith.

By 1700, however, the Ottomans began persecuting Catholics and preventing their Orthodox subjects from converting.

But he warned that other councils were being "obstructive" by preventing schools from converting.

The three versions differ primarily in the software included with them; there are also some hardware differences that prevent the end-user from converting one version to another.

Income deprivation prevents women from attaining resources and converting their monetary resources into functionings.

The poor playing conditions resulted in frequent fumbles by both teams and prevented either team from converting a single first down.

It had acted to put in a rule at the clearinghouse preventing travel agencies from converting e-tickets into paper tickets.

The resulting change is normally permanent and unidirectional, preventing one organism from reverting to a stem cell or converting into another type of tissue.

This sediment preserved the aragonite of their shelled remains, preventing it from converting to calcite.