Psychologist William James called it "the mind-cure movement", the "intuitive belief in the all-saving power of healthy-minded attitudes as such, in the conquering efficacy of courage, hope, and trust, and a correlative contempt for doubt, fear, worry, and all nervously precautionary states of mind".
Still, other officials said a precautionary state of emergency was declared there.
President Bush has pre-emptively declared a precautionary state of emergency for the District of Columbia for Saturday through Wednesday.
Essentially the precautionary principle states that "where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, the absence of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent environmental degradation".
The precautionary principle states that evidence of harm, rather than definitive proof of harm, should prompt policy action, and that the burden of proof should lie with manufacturers to demonstrate that chemicals are safe, rather than with the public to show that they cause harm (Kriebel et al. 2001).
The Inter-American Commission for Human Rights IACHRR) can demand precautionary measures from states in the region, requiring them to provide police protection for activists at risk.
Examples of such guiding principles, some of which have acquired a legal basis in some countries, are the "polluter pays" principle, which makes polluters liable for the costs of environmental damage, and the precautionary principle, which states that an activity is not allowed when there is a chance that the consequences are irreversible.
If the private sector solution fails, the expectation is that the Italian government will orchestrate a "precautionary recapitalisation" – a state-supported cash injection for the bank.
Just before the school year began, the board closed the school's athletic fields as a precautionary measure after state scientists found elevated levels of dangerous compounds in the soil, but not in quantities, they said, that would pose a health risk.
The FBI issued several precautionary measures for state election officials to take to secure their systems against similar attacks.
This linkage is made clearer in the widely quoted Wingspread statement on the precautionary principle, which stated the following: When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken, even if some cause-and-effect relationships are not fully established scientifically.
