Sentence examples for pre-emptive efforts from inspiring English sources

Most of the costs to the shipping industry derived from pre-emptive efforts to protect ships.

The Cheltenham gathering, which appears to have been convened to consider the issues around the burgeoning collection of metadata and to reach common positions, resolved to avoid pre-emptive efforts to categorise various materials and "simply focus on what is shareable in bulk".

The size of pre-emptive efforts elsewhere to absorb shocks from a deeper debt crisis — an €800 billion firewall for the euro zone, $1 trillion at the International Monetary Fund — has given voice to calls that Beijing should think big, not tweak the margins.

Mr. Fugate said that was not a pre-emptive effort to deflect blame.

Thereafter, and especially under the present Interior secretary, Bruce Babbitt, the government actually began setting fires in a pre-emptive effort to prevent bigger fires.

It was even being claimed that the briefing against Darling had been a pre-emptive effort to stop Balls getting the job.

In what Republicans said was a pre-emptive effort to nullify Democratic attacks that are likely to gain more attention in the weeks ahead, Mr. Bush's political operation, using elected officials and party leaders, has begun to try to cast the Democratic candidates as excessively negative in their attacks on a personally popular president.

It could almost be read as a pre-emptive effort, an overdrive exhibition of their nationalism in a society that has always doubted it.

Santander also saw profits fall amid restructuring and bank fund charges, while Lloyds announced plans to cut 3,000 jobs in a pre-emptive effort to trim costs after Brexit.

It does seem clear, however, that his story was pre-emptive – an effort to cover up his own misconduct.

And former Speaker Newt Gingrich said last Friday that while he would not "green-light" a pre-emptive Israeli strike — favoring instead efforts to replace the Iranian leadership — he also would not try to talk the Israelis down from such an attack.