Most important, the law precludes, for example, cutting military spending and using the money to pay for domestic programs.

As a result, the law precludes institutions from enlisting parental help in treating a student's drinking problem, college administrators say.

Chinese law has always precluded homosexual individuals or couples from adopting children.

The proposed law does not preclude any older child who has an established relationship with the biological family from continuing that relationship.

The law precludes a lawsuit if there has been "public disclosure" of the fraud.

Further, local and State laws might preclude such ownership.

It was not supposed to be possible: the laws of nature, scientists said, precluded it.

Nebraska's term-limits law precluded her running for re-election in 2012.

But the law did not preclude an indigent patient's being transferred once he had been admitted.

"The law doesn't preclude the discharge of treated sewage."