Many parents favored the ban, a prophylactic against disappointment.
The staff (rather implausibly) affirms this as a positive, a prophylactic against the paparazzi.
What is it they are doing on the mainland that appears to be acting as a prophylactic against Affluenza?
And it will serve as a prophylactic against the alternative, to which it's dangerously easy to succumb: becoming a hardened shell of habits, with not much left inside.
The greatest prophylactic against despair you could ever hope for has emerged: the Carringtons and the Colbys are back in town.
On the one hand, these healthy communities act as a prophylactic against the executive falling prey to the unhealthy corporate community into which they eventually graduate.
In this sense, you could see it as a kind of prophylactic against other, more serious stress-related illnesses such as anxiety and high blood pressure.
Brachman RA, McGowan JC, Perusini JN, Lim SC, Pham TH, Faye C, et al. Ketamine as a prophylactic against stress-induced depressive-like behavior.
Columbia researchers show through mouse models that a pharmaceutical agent may have value as a prophylactic against stress-induced psychiatric disorders.
I am looking forward to the study that finds staring out of the window eating liquorice allsorts is a prophylactic against cancer.
Rebel, adventurer, a restless spirit who used both travel and the imagination as a prophylactic against pain, he was a tortured artist whose prose remains pure, vibrant and healing.
