President Barack Obama elaborates President George W. Bush's notions of preemptive strike by claiming the further privilege to order the killing of any American citizen overseas who is believed to be a terrorist or a friend of terrorists, to act the part of jury, judge, and executioner whenever and however it suits his exalted fancy.
But the judge didn't buy this, Holman says: She ruled that other methods are not commercially viable, and for that reason, Sequenom's claims were preemptive.
Preemptive force, military doctrine whereby a state claims the right to launch an offensive on a potential enemy before that enemy has had the chance to carry out an attack.
There is some skepticism, however, about the claim that legitimate political authorities impose preemptive duties on subjects.
Call this a preemptive strike, a deep sigh heard from space.
Busch added: "We didn't start this fight" – a reference to a preemptive suit filed by Blurred Lines songwriters in 2013, which claimed the hit single was "strikingly different" to Got To Give It Up – "They started this war and we just finished it".
Han may well have been reacting to a story published Thursday evening by NBC, which claimed the Pentagon was preparing to launch a preemptive strike with conventional weapons against North Korea if Pyongyang pulls the trigger on another nuclear test.
If you really do support the troops like you claim, stop supporting our failed aggressive interventionist foreign policy of preemptive war, regime change, and drone strikes.
The Scots mobilized an army to press his claims, but in June 1650 Cromwell decided on a preemptive strike and led the army of the English Republic toward Edinburgh.
In August Micron fired a preemptive strike against Rambus Inc., a small firm that owns (or claims to own) critical technology for speeding up the retrieval of bits from memory chips.
Most loudly, he issued a preemptive strike against potential accusers with a longwinded, widely circulated Facebook post that claimed "I've been fired from the CBC because of the risk of my private sex life being made public as a result of a campaign of false allegations pursued by a jilted ex girlfriend and a freelance writer".
