41.   Legal or not, many priests said the survey was a pure means of achieving the necessary goal of preventing sexual abuse.

42.   Many of the new powers would expire after four years, a so-called sunset provision that civil libertarians wanted in order to prevent abuses.

43.   Military lawyers are supposed to monitor interrogation sessions to prevent any abuses.

44.   Mero said careful screening for factors such as depression, inadequate pain control and financial pressures will prevent the abuses that Doerflinger fears.

45.   Mulholland has made efforts to prevent abuse -- from reporting incidents directly to the Oregon State Police to refusing admission to sexually aggressive students or housing them off campus.

46.   Nineteen states help to raise funds to prevent child abuse.

47.   On Thursday, Eric C. Andrus, a spokesman for Ms. Meissner, said the agency was continuing to improve internal auditing and computer systems to prevent such abuse.

48.   Others hoped that a court-appointed administrator would prevent abuses.

49.   Parents should know they are the first line of defense, not the last, when it comes to preventing drug abuse in their children.

50.   Parishioners say the church is overcompensating after doing too little to prevent abuse in the first place.