1.   In recent years a major balance-of-payments crisis had been prevented only by assistance from foreign governments and loans from multinational institutions.

2.   And while the fledgling field of online psychiatry has yet to yield any documented disasters, some Web sites have taken precautionary steps to prevent crises like suicides.

3.   But it will also be needed to pacify old adversaries, and to prevent small crises from becoming big ones.

4.   But there are reasons to doubt that the key players can prevent the crisis from worsening first.

5.   Diplomatic efforts are cost-efficient because they help prevent international crises from getting truly messy, Christopher said.

6.   Discussion has prevented crises from happening here, she said.

7.   Economists and businesspeople say the rescue will stabilize the situation in Mexico and prevent the crisis from spreading to other Latin American countries.

8.   Gleevec was highly effective in preventing blast crisis, the most lethal form of the disease.

9.   Here we are trying to do something that requires a higher degree of responsiblity, which is to act to prevent a crisis.

10.   Implementation of the police legislation will not prevent periodic crises over the agreement occasioned by Ulster Unionist obduracy.