Read full poem →Chautauquas, Mrs. Eddy, Dr. Dowies, Comstocks, Societies for the
Prevention of All Human Activities, are impossible in the wake of
Laforgue. And he is therefore an exquisite poet, a deliverer of the
Dictionary Entry
The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.
In a Sentence
“a fire prevention campaign”
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Common Phrases
. preventionprograms preventionprogram preventionstrategies preventionact preventionprevention crimeprevention primaryprevention disease
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Poetry examples for “prevention”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →buy. Each member of our party was provided by our
English hosts with a quart of old brandy for prevention
of sea sickness, but on the second day out we gave the
Read full poem →800 424-8802
EMERGENCY MENTAL HEALTH (Suicide Prevention) 541-4628
FLORIDA MARINE PATROL—St. Petersburg 893-2221
Read full poem →One, he carries a flag up straight, and another a cross with handles,
And the Duke's guard brings up the rear, for the better prevention of
scandals;
Read full poem →That our language is in perpetual danger of corruption cannot be denied;
but what prevention can be found? The present manners of the nation would
deride authority; and, therefore, nothing is left but that every writer
Read full poem →Y. City.
Fechheimer, §8., Louisiana Fire Prevention Bureau, 809 Hiber-
nia Bank Bldg., New Orleans, La.