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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of preclude.

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  • From about the age of 18 until 28, I knew little about the God who saved me because my sin precluded Him from having a direct, day-to-day impact on my life.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Andrew Beckner 2008

  • From about the age of 18 until 28, I knew little about the God who saved me because my sin precluded Him from having a direct, day-to-day impact on my life.

    Happy Birthday Andrew Beckner 2008

  • But within a design-theoretic framework, this possibility, though not precluded, is also not the only game in town.

    A Voice from the Middle Ground 2007

  • From about the age of 18 until 28, I knew little about the God who saved me because my sin precluded Him from having a direct, day-to-day impact on my life.

    Just for starters ... Andrew Beckner 2006

  • From about the age of 18 until 28, I knew little about the God who saved me because my sin precluded Him from having a direct, day-to-day impact on my life.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Andrew Beckner 2006

  • Only the girl's youth and the necessity for the young man to become established in his calling precluded the thought of matrimony for the present.

    The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long

  • There could be no question of running the medical, or any other section of the First Contingent as a body independent of the British authorities; the terms of Canada's offer to Britain precluded that.

    War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918

  • The designation precluded the carrier from developing new routes in the United States.

    Airwise News Top Stories 2009

  • 19″ To be effective, CPCM requires that more open and capable devices be precluded from the market.

    New Digital Restriction regime 2005

  • * CPCM’s robustness requirement will make it impossible to implement CPCM in free and open source software (FOSS) and hence FOSS programmes will necessarily be precluded from the market if CPCM is mandated into national law

    New Digital Restriction regime 2005

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  • the paucity and heterogeneity of the available clinical research in some specific areas precluded this approach and favoured a narrative survey.

    January 13, 2010