It has a long name: the Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

The agreement sets targets to prevent the Earth's average temperature from rising more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

One was the ability of the vaccine to prevent infections from the human immunodeficiency virus, better known as H.I.V.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

Perhaps the best way to prevent getting ripped off in business is to not try to get rich quickly.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

Experts say the best way to prevent the diseases carried by mosquitoes is not to be bitten by one.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

One Confederate officer, trying to prevent his troops from moving back, pointed to a group led by General T.J.Jackson of Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

Farmers may not be able to prevent natural disasters, but they can at least try their best to reduce losses.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

But in the late sixties he went to report on the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Israel says the purpose is to keep weapons out of Gaza and to prevent rocket fire into the Jewish state.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

To prevent that from happening, American Secretary of State John Hay proposed what became known as the "Open Door" policy.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Scientists say the auxin has an indirect effect on buds on the side of the stem to prevent branching.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

The project also works to prevent languages from dying out by identifying the most threatened areas where languages are disappearing.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

It is usually much better to prevent a problem from happening than it is to find ways to solve it.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

A doctor examined Brown. He reported that Brown's wounds were not serious enough to prevent the trial from starting.

VOA: special.2009.07.02