[
US
/ˌpɹiˈɛmpʃən/
]
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 preemption In A Sentence
- So like preemption, in today's supercharged political climate, unilateralism and multilateralism no longer convey any meaning.
- Because the Right of Preemption is likely to injure the security of trafficking, it shouldn't peremptorily oppose the third party. And some restrictions are necessary.
- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano indicated in congressional testimony Tuesday that federal reviewers are considering a preemption argument. The Volokh Conspiracy » Feds May Sue Arizona Over Immigration
- Gibson used the word "preemptively" - but if a knowledgeable person had pushed back on that point ( "Well, preemption was what John F. Kennedy had in mind in acting against the imminent threat of Soviet missiles in Cuba"), Gibson would certainly have come back to explain the novelty of the "preventive war" point. Later On
- One controversial preemption issue involves nuclear energy.
- Not until you saw his face, anyway, with the preemption of a beaky nose and awkwardly sharp jaw.
- And it flaws the doctrine of unilateral preemption, despite the fact you had a smattering of other countries that put up some troops that went in.
- The response time analysis method for scheduling tasks with preemption threshold is a novel schedulability technology.
- Fine, but if preemption is to be adopted as a doctrine, it has to encompass more than one rogue state.
- The rationale for finding no preemption, the court thought, was “nicely underscored” by the facts here, because the primary claims of copyright infringement were “largely irremediable.” Archive 2009-04-01
