Sentence examples for pre-emptive operations from inspiring English sources

"This was another of our pre-emptive operations to target the terrorist infrastructure," said Maj. Sharon Feingold, an army spokeswoman.

Pre-emptive operations have focused on individuals known to target sporting and music events including Wimbledon, Premier League football matches and the Rugby World Cup.

In a separate statement, a military official was quoted as saying Pyongyang could carry out a pre-emptive operation if the US showed signs of "provocation".

As experts warned that such bombastic threats could lead Kim Jong-un to overreact, North Korea said it was "carefully examining" a plan for a missile strike on the US Pacific territory of Guam – home to significant US naval and air bases – and could carry out a pre-emptive operation if the US showed signs of "provocation".

Police sources told Belgian television stations they had resolved to launch the pre-emptive operation against the terrorist suspects a fortnight ago after bugging the homes and cars of the men who were said to have recently returned from fighting in the war in Syria.

Well yesterday, the British Transport Police raided a number of homes and made a bunch of arrests, seemingly as part of a pre-emptive operation to crack down on graffiti in the capital during the 2012 Olympic Games.

The Germans quickly developed plans to launch a pre-emptive operation, following the adage that the best defence is a good offense, intent on capturing the northern section of the Zouave Valley along the northernmost portion of the Canadian front.

2. Study design– HF-HeRE is a replicated and blocked Before-After-Control-Impact experiment that includes two hemlock removal treatments: girdling all hemlocks to simulate death by adelgid and logging all hemlocks >20 cm diameter and other merchantable trees to simulate pre-emptive salvage operations.

Israel's helicopter gunship strikes against Palestinian offices -- pre-emptive "pinpoint" operations, the army said -- drew only more defiance and clashes today, threatening to intensify a conflict that by day's end added 5 more dead to a total of at least 154 in just over a month.

The 20 campaigners were among 114 detained on Easter Monday 2009 in the largest pre-emptive police operation against environmentalists ever mounted in the UK.

Miles summises that rather than it being a post-operation clean-up exercise, it might be a pre-emptive move to protect an operation in progress.