"Elephants haven't come into our fields for the last two months," says Mwapiri, although her husband insists that this is as much due to the proactive work of the park rangers as it is to the fence.
You need not play passive game with your progenitors, try as much as possible to be proactive with them.
This is about avoiding a fatalistic approach to the future: about being proactive and provoking change, as much as anticipating it.
Now it feels like we're not reacting as much to that one event, but being proactive and creating something new.
And as soon as I found out I was pregnant I was relatively proactive in finding out as much as I could about what I could do to kind of maximise the baby's wellbeing and so on.
As money gets tighter, we not only need to hold on to as much of it as possible – we must be proactive about getting it back.
She decided "to be proactive and to minimise the risk as much as I could".
GE's move is as much a reaction to trends as it is a proactive measure.
Already, dashboard cameras are standard in Russia, where fears of violence, corruption and misrepresentation combined with the high number of accidents have resulted in proactive consumer protections to obviate ambiguity as much as possible.
I knew I was in trouble — Douglas and Michaels accuse Stewart of practicing a peculiarly reactionary brand of "proactive domesticity" — but few academic arguments have as much force as persistent whining.
