Horrible accidents from preventible causes occurred daily. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominion in 1983] Reference
Some will work on programs to immunize young children from preventible childhood diseases. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President In National Service Address] Reference
It wouldn't have been pork barrel for the kids we would have immunized against preventible childhood diseases. From Wordnik.com. [Text Of The Presidents Speech In Boston] Reference
The years 1769 to 1773 afforded abundant evidence of the terrible prevalence of what are now considered preventible diseases. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference
On this dark, tempestuous night, be the cause what it may, preventible or otherwise, the Ganges drifted helplessly to her fate. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
Bleak statistics indicated that millions of women were suffering from malnutrition, anaemia and a host of other preventible diseases and disabilities. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It is estimated that two-thirds of African countries have achieved the goal of immunising 75 per cent of their children against these preventible killers. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Many forms in rivers, soil, manure heaps, &c., are capable of bringing about this change to ammonium carbonate, and much of the loss of volatile ammonia on farms is preventible if the facts are apprehended. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Life must be held sacred among us in more ways than one — sacred, not merely from the murderous weapon, or the subtle poison, or the cruel blow, but sacred from preventible diseases, distortions, and pains. From Wordnik.com. [Reprinted Pieces] Reference
That many who sought to do some little to repair the social wrongs, inflicted in the way of preventible sickness and death upon the poor, were strengthening those wrongs, however innocently, by wasting money on pestilent knaves cumbering society. From Wordnik.com. [Reprinted Pieces] Reference
I have great confidence in expectation in the Walgreens of the world and others to do quite well in spite of the fact they're not selling something that is the number one preventible -- rather leading cause of preventible death in the United States. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 12, 2008] Reference
Look again at preventible epidemics, like cholera. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons for the Times] Reference
These alterations to the road signs were, apparently, preventible. From Wordnik.com. [InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs] Reference
One-fourth of the then existing pauperism was traced by him to the preventible causes of disease. From Wordnik.com. [Thrift] Reference
I have made a monstrous fire, but thirst and impatience are hard to bear, and preventible misfortunes are always irksome. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference
If I thought that wasn't preventible somehow, it would save me trouble to wring your neck here and now and throw you overboard. From Wordnik.com. [Foe-Farrell] Reference
Each of them is, indeed, frequently affected by social forces, and consequently is preventible to some extent by social remedies. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
These are easily preventible, and there is no reason why plantations should not flourish there in good situations as well as elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses] Reference
Fifty thousand persons, says Mr. Lee, annually fall victims to typhus fever in Great Britain, originated by causes which are preventible. From Wordnik.com. [Thrift] Reference
The wounded men were brought down the river in horseboats practically unattended, and a lot of preventible suffering and loss was caused. From Wordnik.com. [The Importance of the Mesopotamian Campaign to the British Empire] Reference
Sorry for the thousands whom we let die every year by preventible diseases, because we are either too busy or too comfortable to save their lives. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of Life and Other Sermons] Reference
A shortage of medicine led to the deaths of nine children who had preventible diseases such as pneumonia and meningitis in late February, he said. From Wordnik.com. [news | FT | http://www.timesdaily.com] Reference
It being admitted that the disease is both contagious and preventible, there seems to be no doubt that means of public protection should be provided. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
The annual slaughter from preventible causes of typhus fever is double the amount of what was suffered by the allied armies at the battle of Waterloo!. From Wordnik.com. [Thrift] Reference
He believed that war was the greatest of preventible evils, and that no war which had occurred in his lifetime had been justified by the laws of right and wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences] Reference
"This fund's going to help out-of-work home owners prevent preventible foreclosures," Obama said, adding that the program would also help threatened homeowners pay their mortgages. From Wordnik.com. [Channel NewsAsia Front Page News] Reference
This preventible destruction is going on to-day, and it has been permitted to go on for ages, without a whisper of information regarding its cause being vouchsafed to the suffering sentient world. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
They said, quote, "This was a preventible error, involving a failure to follow our standard policies and procedures, and there is no excuse for that to occur at Cedars-Sinai. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2007] Reference
But to most observers, it was also preventible. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2007] Reference
That poverty, we say, is preventible. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Fabian Society] Reference
There's all sorts of preventible disease. From Wordnik.com. [Between You and Me] Reference
| Page 165: preventible amended to preventable |. From Wordnik.com. [Progress and History] Reference
And all from the most easily preventible causes. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not] Reference
Some of those media headlines were preventible. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph Blogs] Reference
Typhus, a preventible disease. From Wordnik.com. [Thrift] Reference
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