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Example sentences for "prevention"

Lexicographically close words:
prevented; preventer; preventeth; preventible; preventing; preventive; preventives; prevents; preview; prevint
  1. It may be avoided by the same precautions as are indicated for the prevention of lactic fermentation.

  2. Special consideration is given to the utilization of waste, the prevention of nuisance, and the question of adulterations.

  3. Sterility; the Prevention of Conception and the Limitation of Offspring; the Crime of Abortion; Infidelity in Women.

  4. Prophylaxis, or the Prevention of Cancer.

  5. Raciborski, of Paris, took the position that the prevention of offspring to a certain extent is not only legitimate, but it is to be recommended as a means of public good.

  6. The Prevention of Conception and the Limitation of Offspring.

  7. The most natural and moral way for the artificial prevention of conception, when on account of ill health or for economic reasons no more children are desired, is to abstain from sexual intercourse.

  8. All these clean-up campaigns are really for the prevention of illness as much as the making of cleanliness," said Mrs. Morton.

  9. Prevention is a great modern principle that we don't think enough about," said Mrs. Morton.

  10. Tom Watkins was telling us the other day about the Fire Prevention parade they had in New York.

  11. The Best Means to be adopted for the Prevention of Smoke.

  12. The prevention of spontaneous combustion in collieries and the extinction of underground fires are duties that fall heavily on many colliery managers.

  13. No attempt is made to show how diseases when originated are to be cured, but, acting on the sound principle that prevention is better than cure, means are stated how to avoid the harm.

  14. It is only within the last half century that societies have been organized for the prevention of cruelty to ----.

  15. To interpose is to place or come between other things or persons, usually as a means of obstruction or prevention of some effect or result that would otherwise occur, or be expected to take place.

  16. These regulations undoubtedly had much to do with the prevention of the spread of the infectious diseases.

  17. The book of Leviticus, one of the very oldest religious documents that we have, contains a sanitary code which is a marvel of completeness in its prescriptions for the maintenance of health and the prevention of disease.

  18. The repression of the natural tendencies is an extremely valuable practice for the prevention of the many excesses which have so much to do with the undermining of health.

  19. A well-organized society for the prevention of cruelty to animals exists here, also one to promote agriculture, and another known as the Society of Arts.

  20. To deal with the two in the order of the well-worn proverb, we will consider the prevention first.

  21. They first enunciated the judicious principle that has ever governed police action in this country: the principle that prevention of crime was the first object of the constable, not the punishment of offenders after the fact.

  22. He took office next year as president of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, and at once adopted as his watchword the cry of "Down with the police.

  23. Until quite recent years there was no organised provision for public safety, for the maintenance of good order, the prevention of crime, or the pursuit of law-breakers.

  24. The police have numerous duties over and above those of the prevention and detection of crime.

  25. Mastication is under the control of the individual, and he refuses to exercise this salutary means of prevention and cure at his own risk.

  26. The particular constituent of this sort of food, so powerful in warding off scurvy and of curing it when prevention has failed, has baffled discovery.

  27. In the trades little can be done, but in the case of literary men and those who read or write for many hours prevention is easier than cure.

  28. As chronic intestinal catarrh is a complication of so many conditions, the prevention of it becomes a matter of great importance and of very general application.

  29. Of these objects the most important is the prevention of stagnation of the contents of the stomach.

  30. The treatment consists, for the most part, in methods of prevention and palliation.

  31. Correct knowledge and advice in this matter aid in the prevention and cure of the dyspeptic and diarrhoeal maladies of infancy.

  32. The prevention of typhlitis has reference more especially to cases of habitual recurrence of the disease in adults, or to the earliest, prodromatous, stage in childhood.

  33. Provision was also made for the prevention of the sale of food unfit for human consumption.

  34. Primarily it was directed to the protection from cattle plague of the cattle of the country, and the prevention of the spread of disease, which had been entailing heavy losses upon their owners, and very stringent precautions were imposed.

  35. For the prevention of the infection of clothing, the occupier of a factory, &c.

  36. The chief points which are regulated by the authorities (the Police) are cleanliness, drainage and water supply, the separation of the sexes, and the prevention of overcrowding.

  37. Next to the adoption of proper measures for the prevention of disease, a suitable provision for the speedy restoration of the sick to health is obviously of the greatest importance to the community.

  38. It is impossible, with our present municipal machinery, in London, at any rate, to exercise all that power which is necessary for the prevention of the spread of infectious diseases.

  39. I knew," he says, "that were a horse treated as this man consented to be treated, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals would interfere.

  40. Apparently Georgia had already incorporated into its laws provisions adequate to the prevention of the mental improvement of Negroes.

  41. The elimination of the Christian teachers of the Negro race, and the prevention of the immigration of workers from the Northern States rendered the blacks helpless and dependent upon a few benevolent white ministers of the slave communities.

  42. An ounce of prevention, however, is worth a pound of cure," and the best prevention from washing that I know of is clover.

  43. It is also good for the prevention of other insects, as tree-crickets, etc.

  44. We must suppose that such differences have resulted from the prevention of free intercrossing between birds ranging over a wide area, and from the changed conditions to which they have been exposed in England.

  45. When prevention has been properly taught, then it is fair to penalise those who wilfully neglect to take precautions.

  46. I have to thank the Society for the Prevention of Venereal Disease, the National Birth-Rate Commission, and the Joint Select Committee (House of Lords) on Criminal Law Amendment Bills for recording various statements and evidence.

  47. Society for the Prevention of Venereal Diseases, 143, Harley Street, W.

  48. Information as to the medical prevention of venereal disease may be obtained from the Hon.

  49. The town authorities of Portsmouth and many other boroughs are about to employ these methods for the prevention of disease among the civil population.

  50. Third, the hospitals for the housing of these patients must be fully equipped in accordance with the modern ideas of hospital construction, and at the same time afford ample security for the prevention of escapes.

  51. One patient who had aborted on four different occasions was able to pass this danger period by adhering to a rigid program of prevention during her fifth pregnancy.

  52. As soon as this great fact became known, a profound revolution occurred in social hygiene, in the treatment and in the prevention of this terrible evil.

  53. Prevention is better than cure, but cure is better than suffering and death.

  54. Excision of the part is the mode of prevention usually adopted by the human surgeon, and to a certain extent it is a judicious practice.

  55. The punishment of criminals is a matter of public policy and expediency, precisely like measures for the suppression of nuisances or the prevention of epidemics.

  56. The Vatican and its hangers-on were sitting en permanence directing a movement which had for its object the prevention of war.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prevention" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ban; contraband; denial; dodge; duck; embargo; equivocation; escape; evasion; exclusion; forbearance; foreclosure; forestalling; halt; hindrance; index; inhibition; injunction; interdict; law; neutrality; prevention; preventive; prohibition; proscription; refraining; refusal; rejection; repression; shunning; slip; statute; stay; stop; stoppage; suppression; taboo; veto; zigzag; zoning