What's the difference between prevent and proscribe?

Prevent


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.
  • (v. t.) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.
  • (v. t.) To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart.
  • (v. i.) To come before the usual time.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Down and up regulation by peptides may be useful for treatment of cough and prevention of aspiration pneumonia.
  • (2) This death is also dependent on the presence of chloride and is prevented with the non-selective EAA antagonist, kynurenic acid, but is not prevented by QA.
  • (3) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
  • (4) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
  • (5) The penetration of (22)Na was not prevented by the presence of metabolic inhibitors or by 500 mm NaCl in the suspending medium.
  • (6) This would disrupt and prevent Isis from maintaining stable and reliable sources of income.
  • (7) This decrease was prevented by DOCA, hydrocortisone and corticosterone.
  • (8) Elderly women need to follow the same strategies as postmenopausal women with more emphasis on prevention of falls.
  • (9) Treatment of the bound F1-ATPase with 4-chloro-7-nitrobenzofurazan prevented complete release of the enzyme by ATP.
  • (10) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
  • (11) It was hypothesized that compensatory restraining influences of surrounding soft tissues prevented a more severe facial malformation from occurring.
  • (12) Defibrotide prevents the dramatic fall of creatine phosphokinase activity in the ischemic ventricle: metabolic changes which reflect changes in the cells affected by prolonged ischemia.
  • (13) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
  • (14) This was carried out on the healthy subjects for a total of 12 nights without medication (control nights asleep), a total of 12 nights following 40 mg of flucortolone the previous morning, and a total of 6 nights with similar blood sampling when sleep was prevented (control nights awake).
  • (15) He also deals with the incidence, conservative and surgical treatment of osteo-arthrosis in old age and with the possibilities of its prevention.
  • (16) Possibilities to achieve this both in the curative and the preventive field are restricted mainly due to the insufficient knowledge of their etiopathogenesis.
  • (17) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
  • (18) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
  • (19) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
  • (20) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.

Proscribe


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents.
  • (v. t.) To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit; as, the Puritans proscribed theaters.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ethical standards are a set of affirmative responsibilities to which the investigator must subscribe; behavior that is incompatible with these responsibilities should be presumed unethical, whether or not it is explicitly proscribed.
  • (2) Furthermore, in America there is a tendency to proscribe estrogens alone in high dosages for menopausal treatment over long periods of time.
  • (3) Like the UAE, some other Gulf states, Israel and Russia, Riyadh proscribes the Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation.
  • (4) Since pregnancy is proscribed for 2 to 3 months following rubella vaccination, a full range of family-planning services and a variety of contraceptive methods were used to ensure sustained fertility control.
  • (5) Even some who admit that they share Blair's view of the Brotherhood as an extremist organisation say that does not mean endorsing repressive methods to crush it, as have been used in Egypt, where it has been proscribed.
  • (6) So serious is western concern at the prospect of Iranian-backed Hezbollah , proscribed by the US and Israel as a terrorist organisation, taking power that Obama sent his vice-president, Joe Biden, to Beirut last week to bolster Washington-friendly parties.
  • (7) Wilders, who is being prosecuted in Amsterdam on charges of inciting hatred and discrimination, is portraying himself as the protector of Dutch welfare, while calling for a tax on Islamic headscarves, a ban on the Qur'an, closure of Islamic schools, deportation of immigrants and proscribing mosque-building.
  • (8) The new offence would criminalise a person entering or remaining in a “declared area” by the foreign affairs minister if they enter or remain in an area that has been proscribed.
  • (9) The group is already proscribed under two other names – al-Ghurabaa and the Saved Sect or the Saviour Sect.
  • (10) If, however, the person so affected believes that there is some problem, this matter will be legally reviewable, as we have said all along.” Asked what kind of conduct would be captured by the provision – such as whether it would be confined to taking up arms or whether it would also include financing and recruiting for terrorist groups – he said: “There will be a series of provisions in the legislation to specify the kind of conduct that is covered, but in broad terms, it is serious involvement with a terrorist group.” Abbott suggested the revocations would not necessarily affect all groups proscribed as terrorist organisations under Australian law.
  • (11) In this catch-all++ proscribed: "psycho-compartmental disorders of senescence".
  • (12) Medicare and third party insurance payers proscribe payment for research project care and always have.
  • (13) The Bundesbank has argued that a bond-buying programme would be tantamount to direct financing of governments, which is proscribed by the ECB's statutes.
  • (14) These findings demonstrate that almitrine medication, even at a high dose, does not have any deleterious effect on pulmonary vasculature in resting conditions, but prolonged submaximal exercise should be proscribed in patients on a long-term therapy.
  • (15) The SRE generated frequency of occurrence of items and life change magnitudes in five proscribed time intervals.
  • (16) Cruelty in the form of painful scientific experiments, including dissection of living, conscious animals, vivisection, was proscribed by the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876.
  • (17) Although al-Nusra has changed its name, both the US and Russia believe the group has retained its links to al-Qaida, and must therefore be regarded as a proscribed group.
  • (18) The winner stands to be responsible for ushering in the reform plans which partly proscribe the role, greatly restricting it from the freewheeling influence Blatter and his predecessor and mentor, the Brazilian João Havelange, wielded for a combined 41 years, after Havelange’s election in 1974 and Blatter’s in 1998.
  • (19) On that basis competitive sport was not proscribed.
  • (20) A comparison of information from these two sources showed, among other things, that residents were generally reluctant to report drinking which was proscribed the the program.