Good for literary morale; a helpful pre-emptive measure against slowly mounting pre-publication anxiety.
"The companies know that, and as a pre-emptive measure, they have to get costs down as fast as possible".
The new French counterterrorism motto, he said, is "Every time we discover a cell, we eliminate it as a pre-emptive measure".
"Cambodia was included as a sort of pre-emptive measure," said Roy Schmadeka, of Impact International Solutions, the communications firm hired to initiate the project.
The statement appeared to be a pre-emptive measure at a time when "The X Factor" is being assailed for misrepresenting the abilities of its contenders.
In Spokane, Wash., the Police Department was so concerned about indiscriminate rants against Muslims on talk radio that, as a pre-emptive measure, it issued a statement denouncing such sentiments as "hateful and potentially injurious to innocent Spokane-area residents".
The move was a pre-emptive measure to protect more than 150,000 square nautical miles north of the Bering Strait that have become more accessible as a result of the warming Arctic climate.
The referendum was seen by many as a pre-emptive measure against the widespread protests and unrest in other Arab countries, and as a recognition of the demands and expectations of Moroccans no longer satisfied to be ruled from above.
Amid all the questions about the team's health on and off the field, the Mets' owners in January said they would seek buyers for 25 percent of the club as a pre-emptive measure.
Dr. Jane Ruman, a fertility specialist whose daughter Annamaria Bacchetta, 4, takes weekly Junior Kumon reading and math classes after preschool, sees early reading as a pre-emptive measure.
The sanctions against Tressel were handed down by the university and are essentially a pre-emptive measure for what the N.C.A.A.'s Committee on Infractions could decide in the case.
