Precluding Quotes

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize. - Benjamin Disraeli

We do not expect a current generation Xbox price cut from Microsoft this year, notwithstanding the company's stated intention to 'support' the current generation console. We believe that Microsoft's production cost of the Xbox is higher than the current retail price, precluding further price cuts, and we also think that the company prefers that consumers buy its next generation console when that box is introduced. - Michael Pachter

We are not precluding the possibility that something could happen. - Lt. Gen. Hermogenes Esperon

Housing costs are precluding many job seekers from locating in Maryland. - Anirban Basu

Given the range of the product line that Boeing has, we don't think we're precluding ourselves from any capabilities of modern airplanes. At the same time, we're getting some unique advantages by establishing that partnership kind of relationship. - Robert Crandall