1.   The banks take precautions to prevent any attempts at industrial espionage while confidential documents are on the premises.

2.   Precautions are also taken to prevent any attempts at industrial espionage while the confidential documents are on the premises.

3.   And the only way it could see to insure that cloning attempts would be prevented, for the time being at least, was to ask for legislation.

4.   Environmentalists plan to launch a campaign to prevent attempts to rewrite the act.

5.   Specifically, he said, supporters of the tough law could filibuster and prevent any attempt at revising it from coming to a vote.

6.   The Bagram detention area is heavily guarded both to prevent trouble among the prisoners and to prevent any attempt by Islamic militants to break in and free their comrades.

7.   The filing halts all creditor actions, preventing attempts to dismember the debtor while it still has a financial pulse.

8.   The recent spate of defections in China has left the normally tranquil embassy district here crawling with police and adorned with new barbed wire to prevent further attempts.

9.   Trantham said the ELS Learning Center prohibited the students from contacting people outside the program during their stay to prevent any attempts at illegal immigration.

10.   Police, assigned to prevent any attempt by would-be refugees to storm the ship, checked visas for Italy before the vessel left for Brindisi.