Prevent
Prevent verb - To keep from happening by taking action in advance.
Side with
Both terms in one sentence
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Too bad his decision to side with Horus ultimately achieved exactly what he was trying to prevent.
Source: Literature / Horus Heresy - StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty allows you to choose to either free the Spectres from The Alcatraz at the end of Tosh's mission line, or side with the Dominion and prevent a jailbreak.
Source: Story Branching -
The Corpus and Grineer are warring again at the eponymous place and the Tenno are called to make a choice - side with the Corpus to prevent the Grineer from gaining ground, but letting them get their hands on some Tenno in cryosleep?
Source: Video Game / Warframe
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