nip in the bud

This is a rare emergent epidemic that we can still nip in the bud.

The response of Karen Ward, a respected City economist who serves on the chancellor's council of advisers that the Bank of England "has to create a recession" partly to "nip in the bud" a spiral of wages going up and in turn pushing up prices, and then pushing up wages again.

In the past three decades, the Chinese Communist Party has spent immense sums on “stability maintenance,” a budget item for funding not only police and prisons but also a legion of “thought workers” who blanket the country to nip in the bud any possible threat to CCP authority.

“When you don’t punish these crimes — then you know gradually the severity of the offenses escalates or nip in the bud and that’s why you’re seeing these truly horrifying events,” California Assembly Kevin Kiley told Los Angeles CBS 2.

Ms. Parrish said in her complaint to the N.L.R.B. that Apple had fired her to “nip in the bud” her organizing efforts.