Sentence examples for use preventive from inspiring English sources

Defense Minister Sergei B. Ivanov said Russia was prepared to use preventive strikes against any terrorist target in the world.

The Bush doctrine sought to use preventive war against Iraq as a means of raising the perceived cost to would-be proliferators of approaching the nuclear threshold.

In general, the government said, Americans use preventive services at about half the rate recommended by doctors and public health experts.

Officials also plan to use preventive measures, such as killing mosquito larvae before they hatch and educating the public on how to prevent their neighborhoods from becoming breeding grounds for the mosquitoes.

To combat headache, Dr. Buchholz offers a three-step program: avoid the "quick fix" of painkillers, which often make the headache worse, reduce the triggers and, when diet and other lifestyle changes do not work, use preventive medication that can "raise the threshold for migraine by blocking one or more neurotransmitters".

"They go to the doctor more often, they visit the hospital more often, they use more prescription drugs, they are more likely to use preventive care," said Katherine Baicker, a Harvard professor, co-author of the study and former economic adviser to President George W. Bush.

Using preventive reinforcement?

A Canadian study in 2001 demonstrated the September epidemic of asthma attacks in children and the risk of not using preventive inhalers.

Of the total patients, 49 patients (45.8%) used preventive medicine for migraine.

Our study is limited by the fact that the majority of subjects were using preventive medications.

Sixty six percent (28/50) did not use modern medicine any time to abort headache attacks and none were using preventive therapy.