The campaign's leader, chess champion Anatoly Karpov, claimed in 2001 that the conviction had prevented Streltsov from becoming the world's best player.

A background check is performed however, not all convictions will prevent a guard from obtaining employment depending on the state.

But the 3-point conviction would no longer prevent Mr. Ellis from resuming work as a bus driver.

However, her conviction and imprisonment did not prevent the emergence of a widespread leniency campaign.

Second, economic theory predicts that some incentives matter more than others, and the data confirm the theory: Executions prevent murders, but convictions prevent even more murders.

The prior criminal convictions of the four men (and the published accounts of such) prevented them from gaining sympathy from many people.

He said that his religious convictions prevented him from fighting in the Vietnam War.

Only a conviction that she couldn't be trapped so easily had prevented her from admitting it to herself.

Naturally an experimental scientist reported failure when investigating haunted houses, apportations, and the like; his convictions prevented the phenomena from happening.

Although the couple had already been released from prison, the prior conviction prevented them from doing business in certain American states.