NOUN
- the right to purchase something in advance of others
- the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)
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a prior appropriation of something
the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests - the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
How To Use pre-emption In A Sentence
- The Doctrine of pre-emption becomes inoperable without unimpeachable intelligence accepted by all as the coin of the realm.
- And Eva talked about the whole question of pre-emption. Freedom Of Speech, Consumer Interests On High Court Agenda
- In pre-emption articles, it is usual to find, as here, a permitted class of transferee or a provision for transfer to a non-member in the event that no existing member is willing to purchase the shares.
- Any doctrine of pre-emption must rest on certain knowledge of an immediate attack.
- This is not retribution but pre-emption, finding appropriate force to prevent a further attack.
- I needed to sort out a way of creating pre-emption provisions and to retain control.
- This is not retribution but pre-emption, finding appropriate force to prevent a further attack.
- Many have continued to condemn the U.S. for what they call preventive war, or pre-emption, in the case of the Iraqi invasion in 2003, calling it illegal, the unilateral invasion of a sovereign state without justification. Front Page
- The necessary 75% majority for a special resolution under Section 95 Companies Act 1985 disapplying the existing shareholders' pre-emption rights was not realistically obtainable.
- Pre-emption was the only method of averting defeat.
