Preventing Destiny from crawling out of the bed wasn't easy.
He gripped her waist with his hands, preventing her from getting an inch closer or further away.
No means are known so far for preventing this great waste.
In return for Russia's service in preventing the aid of Austria from being given to France, Gorchakov looked to Bismarck for diplomatic support in the Eastern Question, and he received an instalment of the expected support when he successfully denounced the Black Sea clauses of the treaty of Paris.
The dissensions which broke out among them within a few months of the accession of their party to power never afterwards disappeared, except at rare moments when it became necessary to unite in preventing the return of the Conservatives.