Many believe those standards, by requiring savings institutions to raise large amounts of new funds, will prevent the crisis from recurring.

It must judge whether current practices and standards would prevent similar abuses now and recommend what might be done if they do not.

I don't want to think of all the things we humans have allowed to grow on us that a firm standard might have prevented.

These standards will promote health, prevent unnecessary illness and premature death, and save more than $70 billion.

It is the end of a decadelong effort to establish standards to prevent and respond to such blackouts.

One can assume, that a standard would have prevented at least some of this from happening.

Also, the standard does not prevent a numeric section to be placed left of the alphanumeric section.

Strict federal standards could also prevent utilities from overloading transmission lines.

Would these standards and legislative authority have prevented this disaster?

We must introduce standards to prevent the abuse of the Internet because it reaches right into our homes and is easily accessible by children.