Sentence examples for pre-emptive way from inspiring English sources

This coalition would then try to strike in a pre-emptive way.

Americans are attracted to Malthusian doom-saying, Dr. Cowen argues, "because it's a pre-emptive way to hedge your fear.

I did get the impression that this was done by many parents in a pre-emptive way – not because their child was displaying excessive distress at the time, but in order to try and beat any queue or waiting list should such depressive or anxious symptoms develop.

"If we do this, it will in many ways be our first pre-emptive war.

"While Governor Dean was standing up to President Bush's pre-emptive war in Iraq, Dick Gephardt was standing with him and supporting him every step of the way".

(Sort of like pre-emptive war).

"I don't even smoke weed," he says, in such a pre-emptive, aggressive way that we figure he has heard about our little e-joint, so we decide to keep it hidden.

The surrender, as Mr. Flinn describes it, was a pre-emptive strike, a way to head off a plan by the separate county school system that could have led to a drastic shortfall in city school revenues.

The movement was also a pre-emptive strike against the way the world was going, a way that had been clearly signposted in 1848 in The Communist Manifesto: "[The bourgeoisie] creates a world in its own image".

Pre-emptive analgesia is a way of pain intervention before noxious stimulation which has been reported to be potent to relieve the postoperative pain by relieving the pain of peripheral and central sensitization [ 1].

At different moments he understands his compulsion in different ways: a pre-emptive defence against rejection, a means of asserting his moral superiority over others, even a form of self-anesthetisation: He was, he thought, very close to the ideal state he dreamed of in his reading, the state of renunciation and quiet.