Its rules preclude a vote on divisible parts of the articles.

We usually have done it at the veterans' mini-camp, but the new rules preclude that.

Mr. Hoyer complained that the new rules would "preclude the investigator from gathering the facts."

The prison's rules preclude inmates from receiving visitors while in a hospital.

A more rigorous rule under consideration would preclude the same person from serving as board chairman and chief executive.

This rule precludes any type of user registration; though it does not preclude maintaining session or state information.

Some ethical rules preclude an attorney from advancing money in the form of loans to their clients.

He added that conflict-of-interest rules preclude him, as a Fed employee, from exotic tax shelters and other types of investments.

The committee said that the panel's rules precluded disclosure of "sensitive information."

In most cases the rules preclude foreign and local films from head-to-head competition.