My mother had an indolence of character, which prevented her from paying much attention to our education.

Senate - About $70 billion to prevent 24 million taxpayers from paying the alternative minimum tax in 2009.

The council is considering pushing for a 1 percent tax to prevent some of its members from paying more in taxes.

He sued the company to prevent the company from paying the tax.

Companies sometimes face a sudden loss of revenue that prevents them from paying their suppliers.

It is therefore rude to prevent someone from paying if they have made the offer first.

If so, perhaps we should prevent parents from paying for expensive schools or orthodontists.

They prevented the people from paying much taxes to the government.

That must not, of course, prevent us from paying attention to the problems that exist.

But it was as if some spell prevented them from paying him much attention.