preclusion

preclude | American Dictionary

preclude
verb[ T ]
 fmlus/prɪˈklud/
to prevent something or make it impossible:
Although your application was not accepted, it doesn’t preclude the possibility of your applying again later.

Examples of preclude

preclude
The design of the current study precluded us from examining how the development of temperament may influence trajectories of symptomatology in early childhood.
The use of a language of a balanced constitution therefore does not preclude the articulation of political differences.
This does not preclude the possibility that quotatives serve rather different purposes than other complementizers.
However, the great length of the outer enclosures and the many causeways that crossed them surely precluded their use for defence against determined enemies.
Atrioventricular nodal block, therefore, should preclude the development of this common type of tachyarrhythmia.
So, even if some exercises of the will are such that their outcomes are predetermined, that does not preclude the viability of a free-will defence.
Furthermore, the existence of a developed system of state welfare does not preclude, and indeed may promote, a vibrant voluntary sector.
This possibility was precluded by the reassertion of these principles updated in the form of the police power.
This precludes inter-planting during this second rainy season.
However, the effects of other specific co-morbidity patterns remained unclear, because too few cases precluded meaningful analysis.
The idea here is that law purports to preclude deliberations regarding the merits of applying it in any particular case.
This latter arrangement precludes a transjunctional incision should the infundibulum be obstructed.
The extensive use of absorbing barriers was precluded by the nature of the experiment and resulted in rather long settling times for the basin.
And, before the railroad, travel was difficult enough to preclude any sort of concert circuit of touring virtuosos, even had the demand been there.
Unfortunately, several factors in this case precluded a more fruitful intervention at the late stage when we were consulted.
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