1.   Nor does it prevent states from making symbolic political statements about international affairs.

2.   They were acting to prevent the state from trespassing on family matters such as sex education.

3.   Because the decision did not explicitly prevent states from distributing the drug, medical marijuana advocates said they would encourage states to set up distribution systems for the drug.

4.   A bill to prevent the state from executing mentally retarded killers is pending in Jefferson City and has created two unusual allies.

5.   A federal voter registration law prevents states from reducing voter fraud and from easily removing nonvoters from the registry, state officials said Tuesday.

6.   But Clinton points out that federal law prevents the states from acting on their own.

7.   But the possibility that it might prevents states desperate to attract industry from cutting separate deals with companies.

8.   Dole also offered a nod to moderates with a provision that would prevent states from taking benefits from mothers who refuse to work because they lack child care.

9.   Every four years, New Hampshire lawmakers jockey to prevent other states from impinging on their weeklong buffer.

10.   Goodlatte also said his bill would prevent states from putting their lotteries online, by requiring that such lotteries only sell tickets in public places.