Sentence examples similar to pre emptive sense from inspiring English sources
Edward is supercilious and self-regarding, but also painfully defensive; we can see exactly why Cynthia should be so exasperated with him, and yet also sympathise with Edward at Cynthia's rattiness, her uptightness, her pre-emptive sense of grievance.
Rob Barocci, a cinematographer who lives in a rented loft on Water Street with his wife, Angie Day, a novelist, said he is already feeling a pre-emptive "nostalgic sense of loss" for the fish market.
And one sensed some pre-emptive accommodation in Neil McKay's compelling two-part Sunday night drama, Appropriate Adult, based on the true-life experience of Janet Leach, a trainee social worker volunteer called in by the police to observe fair play during West's interrogation.
It makes no sense to react with pre-emptive rage (and an odd obsession over Obama's birth certificate) to a president-elect who has remained pointedly vague on policy.Mr Medved is not alone.
I thought that this has perhaps now become a reflexive response by the authorities: a post-traumatic, pre-emptive strike on the assault on our sense of security and well-being that these events provoke.
Senators react badly to the sense that their country is being pushed around by foreigners as their pre-emptive rejection of the Kyoto protocol showed.
"What I sense among many clergy is that the case has not yet been made that a pre-emptive strike could possibly be a just war".
Pre-emptive retaliation preserves their rank.
This pre-emptive move was not unprecedented.
It was a pre-emptive strike.
