How To Use Pre-emptive In A Sentence
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The pre-emptive slaughter of healthy animals was extended by the administrations in Whitehall and Edinburgh yesterday.
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Nevertheless, credit card companies have been taking pre-emptive action for some time, which should go some way towards addressing the problem.
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Thus, pre-emptive patenting can be a highly effective strategic entry barrier.
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Luckily, I've anticipated and manage a pre-emptive strike while he's still taking in the last statement.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Evidence is accumulating that questions the value of pre-emptive interventions in other fields of medicine, such as breast cancer.
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His speech was a pre-emptive strike designed to prevent opponents from exploiting the war issue.
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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
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Some local residents advocate pre-emptive privatization of degraded communal lands to protect these areas from municipal encroachment.
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The mobile military had done nothing, the ground cannons were a similar failure, and there had been no pre-emptive weakening phase.
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It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim.
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A pre-emptive attack on yourself.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Council has a pre-emptive right to purchase the building back at its sale price and value of improvements, should the Legislature wish to sell.
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Then I was stricken by one of those pre-emptive wake-ups that are usually so bothersome.
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Perhaps general anaesthesia should be combined with pre-emptive local and regional anaesthetic blocks more often.
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The defender launches his pre-emptive counter-attack a split second after the attacker prepares to strike.
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The idea is to take pre-emptive action that can reap results, while avoiding costly and uncertain trials.
Times, Sunday Times
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Notice that, for him, it's just a fact, entirely incontestable, that there's no evidence againstthe Standard Narrative of 9/11; and so he doesn't even think of actually contending withthe evidence, but urges that it be "debunked" covertly -- and pre-emptively, so that thepublic never gets to hear about it, and discuss it for themselves.
Obama's Info Chief advocates Disinformation and Domestic Covert Ops
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Perhaps general anaesthesia should be combined with pre-emptive local and regional anaesthetic blocks more often.
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Like Bush, Kerry favors the policy of pre-emptively striking any nation deemed to be a sufficient threat.
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The idea is to take pre-emptive action that can reap results, while avoiding costly and uncertain trials.
Times, Sunday Times
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PARIS—Électricité de France SA said Thursday it is putting in place a series of pre-emptive security measures at its nuclear plants, as the world's biggest nuclear-energy company looks to calm fears about nuclear power ahead of Europe-wide safety stress tests.
EDF Steps Up Safety Plan
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‘He likes to make pre-emptive offers’ said one longtime agent used to doing business with Lacroix.
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The resulting fear of attack will encourage the neighbours to pre-emptive strikes, which will in turn tempt the first group to strike against them and so on.
Times, Sunday Times
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Imagine if he did become president: he could be telling the world, in a live broadcast from the Oval Office, that he had, on a whim, pre-emptively launched a nuclear strike on Belgium, and no one would pay any attention because we would all be transfixed by his hair.
Danny Groner: Donald Trump's Hair and the Presidency
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The channel is owned equally by four companies and each has pre-emptive rights over the shares, which give them priority in the event of a sale.
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Hitting him was more of a pre-emptive strike than anything.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is mentioned that it is pre-emptive because there is no specific information of assets here or there.
Probe sought in Egypt of Mubarak family finances
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The pre-emptive action has to be proportionate to the significance and imminence of the threat.
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If there is no exposure on this point, you probably just sit back and tell the NC tax authorities to pound sand, rather than bring a pre-emptive suit in Federal court.
The Volokh Conspiracy » North Carolina Tax Officials Allegedly Seeking Names of All Amazon Customers in North Carolina
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Walt Disney, one of the four equal shareholders with pre-emptive rights alongside Carlton and Granada, may well pick up the holding.
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The pre-emptive cull of healthy animals in Cumbria is not happening at the pace the government intended.
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The idea is to take pre-emptive action that can reap results, while avoiding costly and uncertain trials.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some local residents advocate pre-emptive privatization of degraded communal lands to protect these areas from municipal encroachment.
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This is called pre-emptive self-regulation," said Kevin Book, managing director of Clearview Energy Partners, a New York consultant focusing on energy policy.
States Force Disclosure of Fracking Chemicals
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Nevertheless, credit card companies have been taking pre-emptive action for some time, which should go some way towards addressing the problem.
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The Treasury has decided to raise interest rates as a pre-emptive measure against inflation.
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His pre-emptive gloat page was proven to be horribly incorrect and has now been removed from his website and archives.
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Among the new weapons under consideration are low-level radiation weapons specifically designed for pre-emptive strikes.
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Observing that in Weiss's response to his critics it is possible to discern a form of pre-emptive self-harm, Bengtsson notes that the response is typical of avant garde artists, and that it comprises the three distinct elements of sacrifice, struggle and exemplariness:
Peter Weiss - 4
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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.
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Or maybe it's a pre-emptive brush-off, the formal equivalent of Kurt Vonnegut's reply when asked where he got his characters from: ‘Cincinnati,’ he said.
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Companies incorporated under this legislation have the option of including pre-emptive rights in their articles if they so choose.
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I feel a need to pre-emptively defend myself here: I use "bastardization" precisely because it is itself a bastardization.
Today at Stanford Law School: "How Blogs Impact Legal Discourse."
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The foreign press had been pre-emptively expelled from the city, but much of the direct evidence of what then happened was provided via radio transmitter operated by the United States consulate.
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Iran is seen as an existential threat, and that has raised speculation that Israel might launch a pre-emptive strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.
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As it happens, the CFTC report arrived just as the Moe, Larry and Curley of the antispeculation show -- Senators Byron Dorgan and Maria Cantwell, and Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak -- pre-emptively released their own study, by Virgin Islands fund manager Michael Masters, which purports to show "index speculators" are "now the single most dominant force in the commodities futures market.
See You Later, Speculator
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Well, for example: the Methodist bishops have given a kind of statement against going to war pre-emptively.
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A pre-emptive painkiller strike may be advisable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Armed and ready for criticism, he launches a pre-emptive strike.
Times, Sunday Times
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As for me, I want to take any test that'll help zero in on my odds of developing breast or ovarian cancer, knowing that I'll gain information to help me make impactful health decisions (e.g. if the test showed the mutation, I could be more diligent with self breast exams or, more drastically, choose a pre-emptive mastectomy or ovariectomy).
Beth Kohl: Genetics and the Politics of Discrimination
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He took pre-emptive action, alerting other board members and mobilising their support.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, the report which recommended that the council waive its pre-emptive right on the land was only submitted to Mkani's standing committee on January 20, 1999.
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The majority of cases covered by the new powers are likely to be retrospective rather than pre-emptive, a spokesman for the council said.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile, if the latest Labour Court initiative fails, the government will take pre-emptive and decisive action against the strikers.
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On mature consideration though, perhaps those black puddings of theirs count as weapons of mass destruction and merit a pre-emptive strike.
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Walt Disney, one of the four equal shareholders with pre-emptive rights alongside Carlton and Granada, may well pick up the holding.
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If the senior executive wishes to leave the organisation in the future, it is usual for the remaining shareholders to have a pre-emptive right to reacquire the shares of the outgoing executive.
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In a pre-emptive strike against the menacing spectre of boredom, I had decided I would write a letter to someone conducting themselves meritoriously.
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Getting rid of weapons reduces the risk of accidental, unauthorised, hair trigger or pre-emptive use.
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America controls most of the skies around Iran and would veto any pre-emptive strike.
Times, Sunday Times
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No other country in the world has given such unqualified support to America's new policy of pre-emptive military strikes.
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Israel has threatened to launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, though defense officials warn that could spark a major regional war.
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I will warn you, pre-emptively, that the affinities and ancestry of turtles is one of the most controversial subjects within tetrapod zoology ....
Happy Christmas, from gigantic Spanish sauropods... or, alas, poor ‘Angloposeidon’
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It could be said that they typified what pre-emptive strikes were being planned to save.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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However, the report which recommended that the council waive its pre-emptive right on the land was only submitted to Mkani's standing committee on January 20, 1999.
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In the next year, there will be a pre-emptive war, a nuclear stand-off or even a nuclear exchange in the most volatile region of the world.
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In a commencement speech at military school, the president announced an expansive new policy of pre-emptive military action.
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His leg, with its own reasons, endorsed a pre-emptive barrel crease across that incurved nose but Coudreau had started the truck, gunned the engine and they were already pulling away; in the side mirror he watched them watching the truck recede.
The Warden
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pre-emptive criticisms of posthegemony (and many thanks to "a latinamericanist"), here's another of those shallow swipes, from one of Abril Trigo's introductory overviews in Deconstructionists stretched subaltern studies 'central concept of subalternity, based upon the irrepresentability of the subaltern, inasmuch as she or he is always exterior to any hegemonic formation, to its very limits, and rejected any form of strategic suture as a mere disabling of the subaltern absolute epistemological negativity.
Posthegemony
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With Barack Obama announcing Senator Joe Biden as his running mate, I feel compelled to launch a pre-emptive strike, pleading with the inevitable parade of "race commentators" who will be asked to reh ...
Brandon M. Terry: Leave Joe Biden Alone
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The second key to understanding Capote's malice involves what Mr. Schultz calls "table-turning," or "pre-emptive abandonment"—hurt them before they hurt you.
Strange, If Tru
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The auction of Odeon was sparked in June after one property investor failed to get other shareholders to accept his pre-emptive offer of 360 million pounds.
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The channel is owned equally by four companies and each has pre-emptive rights over the shares, which give them priority in the event of a sale.
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Meanwhile, if the latest Labour Court initiative fails, the government will take pre-emptive and decisive action against the strikers.
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When his stamina started to wane David Beckham attempted to reinvent himself as a deep-lying creative midfielder, who would sit in front of the defence – a sort of pre-emptive libero – pinging passes around the place like a coarse fisherman laying ground bait.
When a sportsman's elk-hunting days are over | Harry Pearson
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But I'm really just snarking pre-emptively, because the next bit is the worst.
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See them as pre-emptive strikes.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘He likes to make pre-emptive offers’ said one longtime agent used to doing business with Lacroix.
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If the senior executive wishes to leave the organisation in the future, it is usual for the remaining shareholders to have a pre-emptive right to reacquire the shares of the outgoing executive.
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‘We see it as a non-violent, pre-emptive strike to protect the constitution,’ he said when we spoke last week.
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#150 Interesting, this rant is almost word for word what we were told about Iraq … when the Bush administration was advocating their “pre-emptive strike†doctrine.
Think Progress » Kristol Suggests People of Iran Would Embrace U.S. Attack, Triggering Regime Change
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One remark of Don's, however, nettled me for its pre-emptive protecting of the poet.
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Interesting, this rant is almost word for word what we were told about Iraq - down to the Hitler reference - when the Bush administration was advocating their “pre-emptive strike” doctrine.
Think Progress » Kristol Suggests People of Iran Would Embrace U.S. Attack, Triggering Regime Change
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They decided to launch a pre-emptive strike.
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They took the opportunity of their own settlement to obtain that pre-emptive right, and I have no problem with that - indeed, I congratulate them.
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How many psychiatrists who appear for the defence would have been prepared to support pre-emptive detention of their client?
The Sun
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His speech was a pre-emptive strike designed to prevent opponents from exploiting the war issue.
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Government, for 2 pounds an acre; and if a "cockatoo" (i.e., a small farmer), or a speculator in mines, fancied any part of your property, he had only to go to the land office, and challenge your pre-emptive rights.
Station Amusements
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This puts forth the notion that pre-emptive discrimination CAN be a goodthing.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Strange Consequences of Public Accommodations Laws
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Evidence is accumulating that questions the value of pre-emptive interventions in other fields of medicine, such as breast cancer.
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In part, the sheer scale of this may have discouraged pre-emptive action.
Times, Sunday Times
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When partner opens with a pre-emptive bid, it is usually right to play in his suit when you have no fit.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are most unlikely to succeed in winning a UN mandate for pre-emptive action.
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This sort of elitist piffle doubtless does wonders for the ego of those who espouse it, while pre-emptively discounting contrary opinions, which by definition originate in a philistine mindset.
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Companies incorporated under this legislation have the option of including pre-emptive rights in their articles if they so choose.
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I believe the humility and self-flagellation is real, but also a very effective political tactic: a pre-emptive confession that defuses any accusations.
The McCain Story - Swampland - TIME.com
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We urgently reaffirm our 2003 call for the prompt reconvening of talks with North Korea leading to a non-aggression pact between North Korea and the United States, renouncement of pre-emptive attack and negotiation of a peace treaty replacing the present Armistice Treaty of 1953 and the establishment and exchange of liaison offices between the United States and North Korea as a sign of good faith.
National Council of Churches
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I swear to God, with my first comment I was going to make a pre-emptive joke about Hector soon arriving with his Crusades/Muslims taking over/abortions/High Church manias, but I decided to avoid rubbing the turd lamp hoping that particular odor would not appear. eric k Says:
Matthew Yglesias » McConnell Warns of American Dystopia — More Equality, Less Poverty, Longer Life Expectancy
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We have no intention of launching a pre-emptive strike, but we will retaliate if provoked.
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Well, since I've witnessed hit after hit from the Associated Press and DC Thomson sniffing and slurrying around looking for more news on the Osama Saeed 'story' in The Times this morning, I thought I'd try and bring some pre-emptive balance to wherever it goes next.
Osama Saeed - A little bit more
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Pre-emptive war, toothless lawgivers, and corporate greed leave democracy in the hands of the people.
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The Council has a pre-emptive right to purchase the building back at its sale price and value of improvements, should the Legislature wish to sell.
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One partner already has pre-emptive rights to buy the company's stake.
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The only possible result is pre-emptive violence by the one about to be attacked.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Telling Interview with the Director of Amnesty Israel
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The incident was highly embarrassing for the home secretary as the Palestinian activist was the first high-profile case under her policy of broadening the definition of "non-violent extremists" who encourage terrorism that she pledged to take pre-emptive action against.
The Guardian World News
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The Treasury has decided to raise interest rates as a pre-emptive measure against inflation.
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He had half expected a divine pre-emptive strike, a thunderbolt maybe, as he queued for the body and blood.
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Nonetheless, revenues from pre-emptive purchases of Maori land were the mainstay of the Crown government's budget.
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In Scotland, troops were last night overseeing a mass pre-emptive cull of apparently healthy sheep to halt the spread.
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The auction of Odeon was sparked in June after one property investor failed to get other shareholders to accept his pre-emptive offer of 360 million pounds.
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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.
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Pre-emptive analgesia has, indeed, been said to have been shown to occur in several clinical studies.
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They took the opportunity of their own settlement to obtain that pre-emptive right, and I have no problem with that - indeed, I congratulate them.
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In the next year, there will be a pre-emptive war, a nuclear stand-off or even a nuclear exchange in the most volatile region of the world.
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The Treasury has decided to raise interest rates as a pre-emptive measure against inflation.
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But some women opt for a pre-emptive strike by having their breasts removed.
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The entire idea that he made pre-emptive concessions is based on nothing more than an idea that he “really” wanted a more liberal bill, and I see little evidence of that.
Matthew Yglesias » Pep Talk
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Partly that is a result of rancor and opportunism, but it also inheres in a pre-emptive engagement.
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Bet the dude is working on a list of countries to pre-emptively attack.
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And then there were the pre-emptive strikes on Iraq.
Times, Sunday Times
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One partner already has pre-emptive rights to buy the company's stake.
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Nonetheless, revenues from pre-emptive purchases of Maori land were the mainstay of the Crown government's budget.
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But the political protest song failed to make a pre-emptive strike.
Times, Sunday Times
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So when there's talk of a fourth commercial TV network, as we have now, the wagons are turned, the laager is formed and the pre-emptive arrows fired in the general direction of the intruders.
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Or it takes pre-emptive action.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead the Dems proposed an already-insufficient package, made pre-emptive concessions in the accursed name of Broderism, made MORE concessions when it actually came to the House, and then let the center and right run rampage all over it in the Senate.
Matthew Yglesias » Pep Talk
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Pre-emptive proceedings for a negative declaration in a preferred jurisdiction are entirely legitimate.
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The poachers are normally ahead of the game: here is the chance for pre-emptive action.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus, pre-emptive patenting can be a highly effective strategic entry barrier.
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For some reason or another, we have swung from the Bush doctrine of no accountability no matter how bad you have screwed up to pre-emptive firings.
Balloon Juice » 2009 » December
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The aircraft carried out a pre-emptive strike against bases in the north.
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More preposterous still, they're disguising this pre-emptive borking as a plea for a "consensus" choice.
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The Treasury has decided to raise interest rates as a pre-emptive measure against inflation.
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‘We see it as a non-violent, pre-emptive strike to protect the constitution,’ he said when we spoke last week.
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Menace in the pre-emptive smear that the only thing that could bring about an Obama defeat is the inherent racism of the American voters – a smear that potentially identifies all those who vote against him as public enemies.
Archive 2008-10-01
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Through these three processes, society confronts the individual as an external, subjectively opaque, and pre-emptive facticity.
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Luckily, I've anticipated and manage a pre-emptive strike while he's still taking in the last statement.
