Don't you mean a preemptive strike?

Disarmament policy, too, is preventive policy.

Any effective counter terrorist strategy must include a preventive approach.

Yet the approach adopted to date had been curative rather than preventive.

This operation had preventive character and became a step toward creation of safety belts around Afghanistan.

The efforts of the international community at preventive action in Burundi have been encouraging, but they need to be sustained.

In that sense, President Bush won half his argument preventive force can be justified, but not unilaterally.

We hope that the regional and subregional organizations will offer their resources in a more active way and help both in the prevention of conflicts and in peacekeeping.

This said, a US preventive strike at Iran s nuclear related installations is not in the interest of either country.

Given the evolution of American strategic thinking after Iraq (and now Afghanistan), and of Israel s strategic thinking after Lebanon, a preventive strike is highly unlikely.

Obama committed a fateful error when, for domestic political reasons, he decided to ask the US Congress to agree to a limited punitive military strike.

The Act, no doubt, had a preventive effect, reinforced also by Uruguay apos s democratic culture and the high level of general education in the country.

His delegation also welcomed the elaboration of the first legal instrument of a preventive nature, the draft optional protocol to the Convention against Torture.

Israel's bombing of the Osirak reactor must, therefore, be regarded as a preemptive or a preventive strike words meant to capture the shadow land of self defense.

These arrests seem to be made preventively, their only basis being the quot crime of pro Aristide opinion quot .

It had lacked the capacity to tackle the root causes and failed to allocate the resources needed for a preventive approach to succeed.

It was drawn up with an emphasis on preventive policies and actions against desertification, taking into account long term and cost saving benefits.

To give up on diplomacy is to leave the international community with two ugly options living with a nuclear Iran or carrying out a preventive military strike against Iran s nuclear installations.

In this regard, the Council may wish to address the issue of how to enhance the preventive nature of sanctions and their utility within other parallel strategies.

It should be noted, however, that the protective effect of pictograms is limited and the examples in Annex 3 do not cover all precautionary aspects to be addressed.

The maintenance of international peace and security also has a preventive aspect, which is necessary for peace building and for setting up the social and administrative structures that are essential to the existence of a modern State.

An interesting overview of the situation concerning illicit traffic of cultural goods in the EU context is provided in the 2004 Research Report Illicit Traffic in cultural goods in the Netherlands http www.minocw.nl documenten brief2k 2005 doc 33496a.pdf

An immediate concern, if deep pessimism about Iran s intentions prevails, is a preventive Israeli strike, leading to another major Middle East war with catastrophic consequences for the global economy likely.

While this locust infestation was the worst in a decade, the problem is a recurrent one that calls for a more systematic, preventative approach.

If any nation had developed weapons that could wreak such havoc on the planet, we would launch a pre emptive military strike and bomb it into the Bronze Age. But it is not a rogue state.

It is suggested that suspension of the act giving rise to the application would be appropriate, even if no harm has occurred, since the function of amparo is essentially preventive.

32. UNHCR apos s promotion activities have a preventive component as well, inasmuch as safeguarding the human rights of refugees and returnees entails promoting respect for the human rights of everyone.

These measures have a preventing character and the response, suppression, containment and control in case security is breached or of a security incident is a matter for the police and the security services of each State.

Furthermore, while targeted sanctions are intended to be preventive in nature, they are punitive in their effects, and the rights of individuals under domestic and international law are severely affected.

The analogy with Hitler s Germany is also problematic because, if it were regarded as true, the only sensible course of action would be a preventive strike on Iran and the removal of Ahmadinejad.

However, as no weapon has yet been deployed in outer space, the measures under discussion are purely preventive in nature, and consensus must be achieved first on prevention, rather than verification.

We also feel that the preventive capacity of the United Nations system will be strengthened if we make better use of the expertise of those who have direct knowledge of the field.

Moreover, while a preventive strike would delay Iran s nuclear efforts, it would not stop the regime from rebuilding, and it might also create conditions that cause problems for the regime s domestic opponents.

Iran should likewise be informed that the US and its allies would undertake a preventive military strike if it appeared to be attempting to present the world with a fait accompli.

This preventive step will save the world from the horrifying prospect of large numbers of people being suddenly blinded for life by certain laser weapons that could soon be both inexpensive and easily available.

It would be interesting to learn which institutions were being considered as the national preventive mechanism under the Optional Protocol to the Convention, and if that body could be responsible for gathering disaggregated data.

The aim was to emphasize prevention, which might not be considered a priority investment since it produced long term results.