"Our goal is to have a preventative effect, to hinder people and make them more insecure about what they are doing."

Additionally, no preventative effects have been seen in patients undergoing lithium treatment.

That probably has a good kind of preventative effect anyway.

Financial penalties have a preventative effect upon future actions, whether or not something is done intentionally or accidentally.

In the case of cutting off a limb it has both a preventative effect and ensures that the same crime will not be committed again.

Bordeaux mixture, when applied prior to flowering, has also been shown to have a preventative effect.

Depending on the individual's own needs, these procedures should continue after the hand eczema heals, since they will also have a preventative effect.

Recent studies have examined the preventative effects of progesterone on brain injuries.

The preventative effect of the directive has thus already proven its worth.

The existence of an effective court can, of itself, have a preventative effect.