Sentence examples for preventive preferred from inspiring English sources

More recently, in computer lingo, a firewall is a security system set up to protect a network from direct attack by hackers through the Internet; in politics, it is now the preventive preferred by strategists who, if the firewall fails, turn to damage control.

Preventive measures preferred were use of mosquito sprays and coils.

In one study that investigated patients' preferences for migraine prevention, the patients rated efficacy as the most important aspect in preventive therapy and preferred treatment options with higher efficacy rates [15], like in the present study.

In 1953, she married Dr. Siegrid Knauer, who preferred preventive medicine to antibiotics.

Preventive detention has been preferred over open court trials, as it has been suggested that the criminal trial could be used as a platform for radicals to publicize their views, and that it might confer the honour of martyrdom on accused persons.

When participants were asked to directly compare both interventions on the basis of a short description, they preferred the preventive intervention.

Despite their introduction into English at roughly the same time (the Oxford English Dictionary dates preventive back to 1626 and preventative to 1655), preventive has won out as the preferred version.

In general, the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management seem to prefer preventive fires over cutting in their efforts to thin forests.

For preventive pharmaceutical treatment, most patients preferred to take a pill once per day (52%) compared to an injection either subcutaneously or intravenously each month (9% and 4%), or three months (15% and 11%).

While it has previously been shown that treatment interventions are strongly preferred by society to preventive interventions [ 27, 28], we are not aware of any studies that have explicitly compared preferences regarding vaccine adverse events vs. disease prevention.

This suggests that when people have to choose between a preventive and a treatment intervention, they prefer prevention more when they just were presented with the costs and complexities of a treatment intervention.