The Government continued to prevent foreign journalists from reporting freely in the city.

Attempting to comply with a 1996 federal law, it does not explicitly prevent city workers from reporting illegal immigrants.

They gained power in local neighborhoods by intimidating people to prevent anyone from reporting the group's activities to the police.

The government made thousands of arrests and prevented the newspapers from reporting the riots.

What is to prevent me from simply reporting this to the authorities in Santiago?

A suppression order prevented the media from reporting this until the day of sentencing.

Some admire the practice set by British law, which prevents the media from reporting nearly anything outside the public record.

"An ugly fellow who might have done something unpleasant to prevent you from reporting him to the police?"

This prevents women from reporting the abuse and thus the numbers could be skewed.

But the same uncertainty and vagueness of our schedule would prevent anyone from reporting us missing.