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allows to prevent vs allows preventing

Both 'allows to prevent' and 'allows preventing' are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'Allows to prevent' is used when the main verb 'allow' is followed by an infinitive verb, while 'allows preventing' is used when 'allow' is followed by a gerund. The choice between the two depends on the structure of the sentence and the verb that follows 'allow'.

Last updated: March 31, 2024

allows to prevent

This phrase is correct when 'allow' is followed by an infinitive verb.

This phrase is used when 'allow' is followed by an infinitive verb, indicating permission or ability to prevent something.

Examples:

  • The new law allows to prevent future accidents.
  • The software allows to prevent unauthorized access.
  • I therefore ask you, honourable Members, at least to allow us to prevent the worst.
  • I have a duty to my people and I will not allow anyone to prevent me from carrying it out.
  • Using humans to perfect the procedure will allow us to prevent any further Borg deaths.
  • AIFMs should therefore apply appropriate policies and procedures which allow them to prevent malpractices such as market timing or late trading.
  • I will not allow anyone to prevent talks between the Dalai Lama and the President of the European Parliament.
  • This will allow us to prevent OLAF from being brought to a standstill and disabled by internal disputes.
  • The time has come to devise a clear strategy and take measures including financial instruments that will allow us to prevent, avert or at least postpone natural disasters.
  • As far as VAT is concerned, this allows us to prevent the increasingly sharp differences between the standard rates applied in Member States from causing structural imbalances and distortions of competition.
  • We refuse to allow some thug to prevent this city from exercising its democratic rights.
  • Europe now has a framework which will allow it to prevent any deterioration in the quality of water, promote its sustainable use, protect eco-systems, help fight floods and droughts and eliminate the disposal of dangerous substances.
  • You cannot imagine that we would allow you to prevent this happening, - in case his widow claimed her dole.
  • I believe that, in this case, there are even more concrete and clear ways, the famous Great wall of China, which would allow us to prevent this type of problem.
  • In addition, making legislation more detailed, and in particular the obligation to ensure that patients have access to information, will allow us to prevent pharmaceutical companies from unfairly promoting their own products.
  • The state of emergency allows the government to prevent the formation of new political parties, limit their activities and censor the opposition press.
  • And we shall not allow red tape to prevent us from shifting available resources from the margins of certain categories into other categories, in order to fund these priorities.
  • Increased control is necessary to allow national authorities to prevent and detect the possible illicit use of these substances as explosives precursors, and this can be achieved through the reporting mechanism established under Regulation (EU) No 98/2013.
  • If an image file is larger than the specified maximum size, GIMP will not generate a thumbnail for it. This options allows you to prevent thumbnailing of extremely large image files from slowing GIMP to a crawl.
  • But we must not allow social security discrepancies to prevent this mobility from happening.
  • The Burmese Government has a moral and legal duty towards its citizens and must allow international aid in to prevent the situation becoming even more serious.
  • allows Member States to prevent pharmacists who have obtained their qualifications in another Member State from working in pharmacies established for less than three years.

Alternatives:

  • enables to prevent
  • permits to prevent
  • gives the ability to prevent
  • grants the permission to prevent
  • facilitates preventing

allows preventing

This phrase is correct when 'allow' is followed by a gerund.

This phrase is used when 'allow' is followed by a gerund, indicating permission or ability to engage in the preventing action.

Examples:

  • The new law allows preventing future accidents.
  • The software allows preventing unauthorized access.
  • This will allow disciplines for preventing market abuse and maintaining orderly markets to be placed on a common EU-wide footing.
  • In turn, this allows efficient excretion of the serum phosphate load preventing further deterioration of renal function from calcium/ phosphorus precipitation.
  • Debtors should have access to a framework which allows them to restructure their business with the objective of preventing insolvency.
  • In particular, the transparency of financial relations allows a fair and effective control of State aid, hence preventing market distortion.
  • This would allow the co-financing under the Structural Funds of specific measures targeted at preventing and/or reducing organised crime activities and general criminality.
  • The alternative would be to simply allow the old RCF to expire on 20 June 2013, while at the same time preventing any utilization in that period as long as SAS could not satisfy the drawdown conditions.
  • That commitment allows FIH to further improve its funding position by raising deposits on the market while at the same time establishing a threshold preventing excessive practices.
  • Although China has admitted the blood transfusions scandal and taken a number of measures, according to HRW it still allows provincial and local authorities to cover up the situation, preventing NGOs and journalists from visiting people with HIV/AIDS.
  • (4) The new provisions should be introduced in two stages, to allow heightened surveillance in the short term, while preventing disruption of trade.
  • Hence, the proposed measure would allow legacy carriers to retain unused slots, for which there is demand from other airlines, thereby preventing airports from using scarce capacity in the most efficient way.
  • We cannot allow a veto by one of the Permanent Members to block us from preventing Gaddafi from murdering his own people.
  • I fully support the report on the Innovation Union because I think that it will allow us to knock down the barriers preventing innovative thinking in the European Union.
  • Iraqi troops have been preventing entry of families of Ashraf residents, parliamentary delegations, human rights organisations, lawyers, journalists and even doctors to the camp, and do not allow many logistical materials to get into Ashraf.
  • The attitude of the government, which refuses to allow foreign observers to investigate the causes of the many deaths, as well as intimidating journalists and preventing external monitoring, means that Parliament must take a firm stance on this issue.
  • What is the Commission's view of the refusal of Spanish sporting federations to allow children who are nationals of EU Member States to join, thus preventing them from practising their chosen sports?
  • the majority of Member States have introduced legislative measures aimed at preventing the creation of artificial and abusive structures designed to allow companies to enjoy preferential tax regimes (point 4.8).
  • This would improve transparency and operator confidence, would increase the system's security and would allow to monitor monopolies, preventing discriminatory conduct, and optimising the use and maintenance of the networks.
  • Furthermore, the removal of the rind allows the meat to shrink uniformly as it dries, preventing the wrinkling of the rind and the formation of cracks or depressions.
  • - the provision of an income in old age, which allows the elderly to live in dignity, thereby preventing their marginalisation
  • Will the Council say whether it will allow a Member State virtually to paralyse EU business by preventing all decision-taking and jeopardizing by its behaviour the attainment of Treaty objectives?

Alternatives:

  • enables preventing
  • permits preventing
  • gives the ability to prevent
  • grants the permission to prevent
  • facilitates preventing

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