In January, church leaders could not stop the city assembly from passing a law allowing civil unions among homosexuals.

He tried to stop them from passing through here.

I could not stop myself from passing in front of her parents' house one moonless night late in the second month.

"That sea does not exist-it is there to stop travellers from passing through the gate."

Copyright law exists to stop someone from taking another person's work and passing it off as their own.

The movement did stop the government from passing the polemical Law.

Jared also tells her that the ship does not stop ships from passing through the blockade.

In the past we've been frustrated when legislators tried to stop important bills from passing by resorting to the same tactic.

But that was not enough to stop the House from passing this misguided bill.

The Army does not stop the refugees from passing through the checkpoint in their continued quest for safety.