pre-emptive

How To Use pre-emptive In A Sentence

• 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.
• 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.
• I told her I had two concerns -- that we needed a voice that would transition us to a new economy, challenge pre-emptive wars, regardless of whether the wars were waged by Republicans or Democrats, and that we needed a congress person who would advocate for a just and lasting peace in the middle east, someone who would not be afraid to criticize Israel, to fight for equal rights for both Palestinians and Israelis. Marcy Winograd: Mubarak, Harman Walk: Winograd Considers a Run
• Evidence is accumulating that questions the value of pre-emptive interventions in other fields of medicine, such as breast cancer.
• His speech was a pre-emptive strike designed to prevent opponents from exploiting the war issue.
• Given the possibility of some topical variances here therefore, the question that might arise is whether this is, as is being reported in the aforementioned news sources, an intended denial of the contents of Tornielli's report, or whether it is not a denial, but rather a pre-emptive assurance, on the heels of Tornielli's story, that there are no formal changes to the liturgical books presently planned. Further Developments Related to the Tornielli Rumours