It looked as if they hoped their early move would somehow prevent any further postponement.

She let go and stepped forward, wishing she could somehow prevent this meeting now that it was actually about to happen.

They did suggest that the earlier warning might have somehow prevented an attack.

Might analgesia given before a painful stimulus somehow prevent or reduce the pain experienced later?

If only I could have turned time backward somehow prevented the entire destruction" "Mark!

Was she destined to become the Terror, somewhere back in the unimaginable past, or could he somehow prevent it?

Meanwhile, some idiot apparently thinks domain name confiscation somehow prevents *anything*.

Then we need to somehow prevent the efficiency gains from being erased by the continued growth in consumption they enable.

Because they somehow prevent it when they're present?

We would have to be there and somehow prevent the disaster.