As a member of a special armed force, the player's objective is to prevent the enemy from launching their weapon.

It was their return fire that prevented the Germans from launching a concentrated attack.

What's to prevent/ those glory hounds from coming down here and launching a surgical air strike on us?

He held up a hand to prevent his son from launching into a passionate speech.

"What's to prevent me from launching an air strike right now, against Government House, and putting an end to your little game?"

There's nothing to prevent children from launching a different browser that's installed on the computer and going wherever they want.

What could possibly be preventing her from launching her promised attack?

However, Harmony's incomplete library prevented it from launching some other applications:

He was also concerned to prevent the settlers from taking the law into their own hands and launching revenge attacks.

This will probably not prevent the citizens from launching the debate themselves on this occasion.