preclude

Of course, this is not to preclude that minorities will remain in either state where they will receive full civil rights.

Some invisible power seemed to be enlisted in our defence and to preclude the necessity of our arms.

This fact does not, however, preclude another, that the environment has helped in the process.

The conditions in which his work is done, however, preclude the possibility of careless reading.

The fire was issuing from a long straw-stack, which was so far gone as to preclude a possibility of saving it.

In this country, the most abject poverty need not preclude the craving mind from its natural aliment, books.