palliative

• The old treatment modes -- preventive, palliative, and curative -- now give way to a powerful fourth: substitutive. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 04-05 - October-November 1996
• Some children stay longer at Ashley House because they need long-term palliative care or hospice care, or because there is no place else for them, Brandler said. —  The Seattle Times
• Addington, Yoo and Feith that doesn't involve a maverick Spanish judge, and the sooner that Justice comes clean on the stuff it still hasn't released the sooner we can judge for ourselves what that action should be. block the confirmation of key Obama administration nominees, including for the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, by linking their approval to suppressing the memos should serve as a palliative to the president. —  KIKO'S HOUSE
• The enduring lesson of this age was that allowing business cycles to run their course was wasteful, not palliative, and that responsible governments should use policy tools to fight downturns. —  Economic Policy Institute
• Sen. Obama replied: "The Justice Department going after sick individuals using this as a palliative instead of going after serious criminals makes no sense." —  Propeller Most Popular Stories

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