preclude

How To Use preclude In A Sentence

• The set-off clause precludes the withdrawals of amounts standing to the customer's credit as long as this liability is contingent.
• Was skin pigmentation a factor or a reason to preclude? Think Progress » Wall Street Investors Lavish Scott Brown’s Campaign With Money, Get Out The Vote Operations
• Indeed, Fleet was eager to liquidate the preferred shares, because they legally precluded it from integrating those newly acquired assets.
• The temporary cease-fire agreement does not preclude possible retaliatory attacks later.
• The California's Supreme Court (in a 7-0 decision written by the justice who authored the marriage decision) has already unanimously determined pre-election review is not precluded when the challenge is based upon a claimthat the initiative may not properly be submitted to the voters becauseit amounts to a constitutional revision rather than an amendment. California's "Proposition 8 - Limit on Marriage Initiative" Should Be Removed From The Ballot
• Because the transcript is still under seal, I am precluded by law from discussing the evidence.
• His contract precludes him from discussing his work with anyone outside the company.
• This was not the first time he'd mentioned kids, and I'd had to tell him that I'd precluded that possibility surgically some time ago.
• The shock of what he saw and heard has, as I write, put him into a condition that precludes him from talking about it.
• It is impossible for a modern author to create the necessary tone for an epic without lapsing into irony, because the material conditions preclude the creation of new myths.