In early preemption examples, the process running from the preempted alternative is cut short before the main process running from the preempting cause has gone to completion.
Bank regulators also refused to implement consumer protection rules against predatory mortgage lending, while preempting state attempts to do so.
Now the Revolution's leaders were preempting this punitive will in order to control it: they conceived of terror as rational rather than emotional and as organized rather than instinctive.
An exception occurred after the death of the sultan Ḥamad ibn Thuwayn on August 25, 1896, when his nephew, Khālid ibn Barghash, seized the throne, preempting the British-supported candidate, Ḥamud ibn Moḥammed.
It was the finale of an event at Kensington Palace to support homeless charity Centrepoint, which works to support hundreds of young people by preempting and tackling problems that could force them onto the streets.
During times of national crises, television galvanized the country by preempting regular programming to provide essential coverage of significant events.
With television preempting routine entertainments, and the best of the new directors moving cheerfully into frankly commercial projects (no matter how good they might ultimately be), is the film marketplace being irreparably fragmented?
The approach to Qaddafi besides preempting his operations-favored by American diplomats is isolating him politically & economically.
