61.   Supporters said they were acting to prevent taxes from ruining family farms and small businesses, but detractors decried it as a costly giveaway to the wealthiest Americans.

62.   The Americans said they acted to prevent violence.

63.   The new court must do more than simply act as an expensive salve to international guilt at failing to act to prevent such crimes.

64.   The women successfully argued in court that they acted to prevent a crime from being committed.

65.   Under those accords, Cuba is required to act to prevent people from leaving the island illegally.

66.   Washington has said it acted to prevent future terrorist attacks.

67.   We must also act to prevent instability spreading in the region.

68.   Giant Russian nickel producer Norilsk has acted to prevent its three subsidiaries from undercutting each other on the London market.

69.   He said courts could act to prevent troublemakers from attending matches by banning them as a condition of bail in the normal way.

70.   A senior Israeli official said Monday that the Jewish state will act to prevent the arming of Iran with ballistic missiles if persuasion fails to do the job.