An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

And it's true that an ounce of prevention equals a pound of cure, but that's only if we know what to prevent.

Judging from the outcome of last month s meeting of the ECB s Governing Council, that ounce of prevention appears to be right around the corner for the euro zone economy.

Start with a 16 ounce portion of big fish.

Am I sitting down in a steakhouse to a 16 ounce portion of this?

An ounce of wit that is bought is worse a pound that is taught.

I went there, and I ordered the eight ounce rib eye for 160 dollars.

The gold buying policy raised the official gold price from 20.67 an ounce in October 1933 to 35.00 an ounce in January 1934, when the experiment was discontinued. By then, several hundred million dollars had been pumped into the banking system.

Better a 50 basis point increase now thereby allowing the economic recovery to continue by keeping inflation in check than triple or quadruple that figure down the road. The old adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure applies with particular force to monetary policy.

The cab stopped, and I pulled my body from it feeling each ounce of weight as I walked to the elevator.

You know that you can hold a 40 ounce bottle of rum and two bottles of coke in a wineskin? So what, right?

And this also happened to my girls as they began to see, and, we thought, maybe became an ounce more compassionate.

And instead of charging a dollar fifty for the eight ounce bottle, the way that French's and Gulden's did, they decided to charge four dollars.

Conflict prevention and prevention of torture

Listen closely Marvin Minsky's arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is he joking? advice.

Prevention of statelessness

Prevention of discrimination

Prevention of discrimination

Prevention of terrorism

I discovered this bar on Manhattan's Lower East Side that hosted a weekly poetry open mic, and my bewildered, but supportive, parents took me to soak in every ounce of spoken word that I could.

Prevention of armed conflict

Prevention of Sexual Harassment

Prevention of armed conflict

Prevention of armed conflict

Prevention of marine pollution

Prevention of armed conflict'

Prevention of HIV AIDS

I feel constrained to note here that even an ounce of failure on minor issues holds up the release of funds for major projects and programmes in third world countries, despite tons of reasons to go ahead with such projects.

NEW YORK Gold prices have been rising sharply, breaching the 1,000 barrier and in recent weeks rising towards 1,200 an ounce and above. Today s gold bugs argue that the price could top 2,000.

The round table on prevention of HIV reaffirmed that prevention continues to be the main pillar in combating AIDS, but that the coverage of prevention programmes was still low.

Prevention of trafficking in persons

Lecture at the first Symposium on Criminality and Crime Prevention, the Community and Crime Prevention Comparative Prospects , Institute of Crime Prevention Studies, province of Córdoba, 24 and 25 June 1993.

Prevention

Prevention

The importance of crime prevention, including crime prevention activities at the local and national levels, was stressed by several speakers, who also noted that the Guidelines for the Prevention of Crime (Economic and Social Council resolution 2002 13, annex) served as a significant reference for developing both crime prevention activities at the local level and national crime prevention strategies.

Mandate of the Subcommittee on Prevention

Declaration on the prevention of genocide

Declaration on the prevention of genocide

2003 26 Prevention of urban crime

Prevention of armed conflict P.12 .

Health policies to guide the treatment and prevention of STDs, taking a comprehensive approach that includes the prevention of HIV AIDS

The Prevention of Stalking Law, 5762 2001 ( Prevention of Stalking Law ), mentioned in our previous report, was enacted in October 2001.

It set out a prevention strategy and made nine recommendations that are the foundation of WHO's violence prevention work.

Prevention of transboundary harm from hazardous activities

Enhancement of fraud and corruption prevention mechanisms