preventive detention

Perhaps the guards at the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities will finally be allowed to smoke cubans, too.

The cause of Haggard's mysterious detention in Rome, and of their own sudden flitting, became at once clear to her.

Thus if a man threatened to fill up your well because it stood, as he claimed, on his land, you had no preventive remedy at law.

This detention was very vexatious, for we were not only losing a fair wind, but lying in a very exposed situation.

It is usual to have recourse to this valuable invention only when disease is actually existing—as a preventive, it is neglected.

For instance, the decrease may have been due to extra preventive work done by welfare officers.