Sentence examples for was a preventive from inspiring English sources

Estrosi said the ban was a preventive measure.

The Iraq conflict, by contrast, was a preventive war.

It said it was a preventive measure after an engineering consulting firm, Walm, refused to give the dam a declaration of stability.

Turkish officials said 60 people were flown to Ankara, the Turkish capital, in what they said was a preventive measure after the attacks.

"It was a preventive measure to warn us that they are not going to tolerate acts of demonstration," one woman, Ofelia Nardo, vice president of the Confederation of Democratic Workers, said after she had been released.

She said that the Corchado campaign's effort to stake out territory near the site of the event was a preventive measure, and a reaction to a recent council meeting that was upstaged when Mr. Adubato brought 300 teachers and young students from the Robert Treat Academy – a school he runs in the heart of the North Ward – to heckle her husband.

This potentially could be a preventive or therapeutic target to prevent both cognitive and functional decline, and frailty progression.

This prevents any leakage of cells to the peritoneal cavity and is a preventive measure against peritoneal carcinomatosis.

Soil steaming is a preventive non-chemical weed control method.

Dr. Borden, 36, is a preventive cardiologist employed by NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill-Cornell NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill-Cornell NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill-Cornell Medical Center

These honesty cafes are a preventive measure in our fight against corruption".