(v. t.) To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.
(v. t.) To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance.
(v. t.) To deprive; -- with of.
(v. t.) To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mastitis in its complexity has managed to forestall all efforts of eradication in spite of years of research, antibiotics and practical control measures.
(2) His message suggested a Grexit was now inevitable as he stressed the need for EU humanitarian programmes to forestall social implosion in Greece.
(3) From the psychologic standpoint, plastic surgeons are now challenging their patients to help themselves in such an overall program to forestall the effects of aging.
(4) Obama may prefer to consider that his lasting contribution to international affairs has been a landmark diplomatic accord to forestall an Iranian nuclear weapon, or the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba .
(5) Such legislation needs to be carefully designed in order to achieve its objectives and forestall new, financially abusive arrangements.
(6) There is current interest in the possibility of developing interventions that forestall the normal cognitive decline in elderly adults.
(7) Treatment needs to be multidisciplinary in approach, and to be started early to forestall a number of organic complications associated with reduced appetite control and significant overweight.
(8) In patients with chronic symptoms, surgery is indicated to forestall further local infectious complications, and a single-stage sigmoid resection without hysterectomy may be adequate.
(9) In the next century we will see a serious test of whether or not mankind has lost its ability to foresee and forestall the side effects of scientific and technological ingenuity.
(10) The big four are understood to be driving a similarly hard bargain with Spotify, which has had its US launch forestalled by industry negotiations.
(11) This presentation describes the organization of disaster relief work after the earthquake, the rescue of buried victims, the organization of medical resources, and the sanitation work to forestall epidemics.
(12) Prevention of glycosylation with aminoguanidine has forestalled complications in experimental diabetes.
(13) Moreover, neurons are also protected from excitotoxin-induced death by the addition to the culture medium of either superoxide dismutase or mannitol, which scavenge superoxide and hydroxyl radicals, respectively, or serine protease inhibitor, which forestalls formation of xanthine oxidase.
(14) Overdentures designed to prevent direct occlusal trauma to the residual ridge may either forestall or reduce residual ridge resorption.
(15) These results suggest that home nursing care assists patients with forestalling distress from symptoms and maintaining their independence longer in comparison to no home nursing care.
(16) The ability of long-acting fluphenazine decanoate and oral fluphenazine hydrochloride to forestall relapse among newly discharge schizophrenic patients is examined in the context of high and low degrees of social therapy (ST).
(17) There is no need for asymptomatic people with HIV infection to restrict their lives in order to avoid exposure to stressful life experiences or to develop special skills for coping with stress to forestall the progression of HIV illness.
(18) The ultimate strategy lies in improving the quality of life in these communities through adequate housing, sanitation, and health education, and integrating primary prophylaxis into national health care programs to forestall the development of rheumatic fever.
(19) It's an attempt to forestall a controversy that is taking place anyway.
(20) The organize language groups for the elderly appeared urgent in order to forestall a deterioration of their faculties and strengthen those faculties which could be maintained.
Precautionary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to precaution, or precautions; as, precautionary signals.
Example Sentences:
(1) This new surgical technique using laparoscopy with precautionary measures for the pneumoperitoneum appears to be very promising and should become a widespread technique in the future.
(2) Patients who have completed a prescribed course of treatment are not infectious, and no precautionary measures are indicated.
(3) Established oral foci should, nevertheless, be treated irrespective of their relation to extraoral or systemic damage, and in an effort to protect from bacteremia, precautionary measures should be taken prior to manipulations in this area.
(4) The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' "Guidelines for vaginal delivery after a previous cesarean birth" include a precautionary statement regarding estimated fetal weight of more than 4000 g. To evaluate the validity of this restriction, we conducted an analysis of the outcomes of 301 trials of labor with birth weights equal to or greater than 4000 g. In the birth-weight range of 4000-4499 g, 139 of 240 patients (58%) delivered vaginally.
(5) Not only have they improved the fortunes of threatened species but they are essential if we want to meet our international biodiversity commitments.” On pesticides, Eustice said the EU’s precautionary principle needed to be reformed in favour of a US-style risk-based approach, allowing faster authorisation.
(6) They conceptualized attitudes toward AIDS, developed items reflecting diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, and achievement statuses in development, and assessed their relationships to identity and intimacy, while predicting overall that general maturity, as measured by high identity and intimacy, would relate positively to precautionary attitudes toward AIDS.
(7) I am a Christian and believe that God can be the only one to protect me from this virus, even though I always follow every precautionary measure to ensure that I do not become infected.
(8) Travel to virtually all parts of the world can be medically safe, given a modest investment of effort to provide appropriate immunizations and education of travelers regarding precautionary steps regarding food, drink and other matters.
(9) As a precautionary measure, in 2009, Angiolini issued guidance to prosecutors, instructing them only to use admissions made by suspects who had not had legal advice before interview in a police station where this was considered essential for the crown case.
(10) The patient was being kept in isolation at Great Western hospital in Swindon while tests for the deadly virus were carried out as a “precautionary measure”.
(11) Germany's Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices said that it was recommending the removal of PIP breast implants "as a precautionary measure", while the Czech health ministry said about 2,000 Czech women with potentially faulty implants should have them removed.
(12) Daniel Welbeck was left out of the Valencia friendly but that was described as a precautionary measure because of a minor knock and he is in contention for the Swansea game.
(13) We should … adopt some precautionary measure – learning from [how] mountains [are managed] in developed countries where they adopt measures to avoid avalanches by putting some kind of wood or some concrete so that it helps make it safe.” All those attempting the classic South Col route – followed by Sir Edmund Hllary’s team, who first conquered Everest in 1953 – have to pass through the icefall to reach the upper slopes of the mountain.
(14) The clinical precautionary measures based on these observations are discussed.
(15) A ‘precautionary’ approach Whatever direction synbio outfits head in their marketing campaigns, a fight is brewing.
(16) We feel it’s time to move from precautionary language to more forceful language to get people to take action,” said Dr Bruce Aylward, who is leading WHO’s Zika response.
(17) Wild weather will continue to cause havoc across Britain with driving snow, high winds, coastal flood warnings and the precautionary evacuation of an Essex village.
(18) The measure is precautionary, as they are not showing symptoms at this time.
(19) Potassium supplementation was necessary in 25 of the patients receiving chlorthalidone, but was precribed as a precautionary measure in only 1 patients whilst on indapamide.
(20) The precautionary measures should be similar to those taken with the systemic curare test.