Sentence examples similar to a pre-emptive mandate from inspiring English sources

"It seems clear," Lauren Weinstein, the editor of Privacy Journal, wrote "that such a scheme is a pre-emptive push toward what would eventually be a mandated Internet 'driver's license' mentality".

It was a pre-emptive strike.

"A pre-emptive strike," Phillips said.

He put in a pre-emptive bid.

Consider this a pre-emptive strike.

I herewith propose a pre-emptive compromise.

It's a pre-emptive strike.

Perhaps it was a pre-emptive strike.

Was it a pre-emptive strike?

A pre-emptive warning handcuffs the umpires.

A pre-emptive three hearts is sufficient.