And yet, at the moment of the launch, none of these precautions mattered.
Take precaution of certain matters.
And what matters in precaution is not to get rid of the measure, not to "kill" the measure, not to reduce it, but to reduce the differences between the measures, and between various systems of precaution.
Mr Edano insisted that the alert was a matter of precaution.
As a matter of precaution, family planning agencies should have started phasing out injectables, especially in communities at high risk of H.I.V., and encouraged other contraceptive methods.
As a matter of precaution, several rooms on the floor immediately beneath the attic, including the Salle Van Dyck, were promptly emptied of their paintings.
The Swedish study was approved as a matter of precaution by Lokal forskningsetikkommitté Nord, Karolinska sjukhuset with accession number 97 162.
The workers are typically separated from each other by a thick wooden partition in case of accidental detonation, though such precautions do not matter much when a combustion gets rolling: an explosion ripped through a southern Chinese fireworks factory last week, killing 36 people and injuring 160.
The authorities in France have recommended they be removed as a precaution, and not as a matter of urgency.
No matter how much precaution we take or security measures we make, if we don't look while we cross the road or poison ourselves with an unhealthy diet or drive recklessly, we're bound to be hurt.
