preemptive

How To Use preemptive In A Sentence

• The shareholders of a corporation do not have a preemptive right to acquire the corporation's unissued shares except to the extent the articles of incorporation so provide.
• The U.S. onslaughts on the cities were part of its retaliatory and preemptive strikes on the regime.
• But within the cablecast essay, Olbermann noted how the president engaged in a "preemptive abandonment" of both the public option and single-payer. Bob Cesca: Are Progressives Losing Touch With Reality?
• In this scenario, Lin and his high military commanders, sensing's treachery, plotted a preemptive coup d'etat.
• The impact of modern missile defense systems on the effectiveness of the classic nuclear deterrence triad - retaliatory strike, retaliatory strike / counterstroke, and preemptive strike - is highly topical in present day conditions.
• And of course, his record on preemptive military strikes is not exactly stellar either.
• Now, he has added the threat of preemptive military strikes.
• Now, the president talked about the Bush doctrine of acting preemptively against perceived terror threats abroad to make Americans safer domestically.
• Its doctrine of preemptive war makes a mockery of the principles of non-aggression and international legality laid down in the charter of the United Nations, whose resolutions Washington claims to be defending.
• Some preemptive grovelling can go a long way.