But in virtually all those cases, dissent did relatively little to prevent bloodshed.

People have to start somewhere to prevent bloodshed and violence.

But instead of preventing bloodshed, their presence seemed to provoke it; two soldiers were also reported killed.

It was a step that State Department officials said most likely prevented bloodshed.

In his desire to prevent bloodshed, the doctor had doomed the villagers to slavery, if not death.

But the identification had come too late to prevent further bloodshed.

In such a situation we can have only one goal and that is to prevent bloodshed.

It is essential to find a speedy solution to the conflict in order to prevent further bloodshed.

The people of Moldova must remember the 1992 war and make every effort to prevent renewed bloodshed.

From everything I've seen he went on that raid to try to stop you, but also to prevent bloodshed.