Preventing and Support

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Support is an antonym for preventing in keep from happening or continuing topic.

Support verb - To promote the interests or cause of.

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Preventing is an antonym for support.

Racism obviously didn't influence every decision Wilson made: his second wife was a distant descendant of Pocahontas, and he did support the right of Japanese-Americans in California to own land (although that had more to do with preventing a war with Japan than anything else).

Source: Germans Love David Hasselhoff / People
At one point Amelia is trapped on a damaged elevator and remarks that it's a good thing the emergency breaks will work even if the power and life support fail, preventing it from entering freefall: which implies the artificial gravity would still work even then.

Source: Literature / Future History
By the time Davros appears in "The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar", he's actually become Genre Savvy enough to build a force field into his life-support wheelchair, preventing the Daleks from harming him should they turn on him.

Source: Hoist By His Own Petard / Live-Action TV

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