How To Use pre-empt In A Sentence
- Commonly the groom or his family gave the infare, but often enough some generous and well-to-do friend, or kinsman, pre-empted the privilege. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South
- Of course, the media is always trying to pre-empt events, but where there is smoke there is fire.
- The pre-emptive slaughter of healthy animals was extended by the administrations in Whitehall and Edinburgh yesterday.
- Nevertheless, credit card companies have been taking pre-emptive action for some time, which should go some way towards addressing the problem.
- Thus, pre-emptive patenting can be a highly effective strategic entry barrier.
- Luckily, I've anticipated and manage a pre-emptive strike while he's still taking in the last statement.
- The Doctrine of pre-emption becomes inoperable without unimpeachable intelligence accepted by all as the coin of the realm.
- Even the most hawkish leaders baulked at countenancing a right of pre-emptive action when the world's principal disputants both had nuclear missile submarines designed to evade a surprise attack.
- They essentially amounted to a crude pre-emptive strike designed to forestall any leadership challenge and the natural targets were those with whom he has crossed swords in the past.
- But on this occasion police pre-empted the event and warned drivers to keep away.
