Sentence examples for preemptive efforts from inspiring English sources

Preemptive efforts by Ohio State to self-flagellate and avoid the NCAA's wrath were mostly for naught, and the university would receive, among other things, additional scholarship losses, an extended probation period, vacated wins, and a postseason ban that leaves the 12-0 Buckeyes ineligible to even win their own conference.

In his letter, he says, "More importantly, I write to encourage you to aggressively pursue all available legal remedies to enjoin and prevent these illegal actions, and to prosecute any who may elect to engage in them in spite of your preemptive efforts".

Comparing this with the radical statements of recent biennials, critic Holland Cotter construed the strategy as a "preemptive effort at damage control".

In a preemptive effort, the festival was moved from the weekend of July 4 to a week later and cut from 10 days to five, trimming vendor participation from nearly 60 down to about 40 restaurants.

Trump's address was a preemptive effort to turn the tables on Clinton, who delivered what her campaign billed as a major address later Thursday linking the GOP nominee to a group of radical conservatives referred to as the "alt-right".

The chorus of criticism directed at the CBO sounded a lot like a preemptive effort to undermine faith in the agency's assessment, which ― when it finally appears ― is unlikely to validate GOP boasts that their plan will provide better access to care.

Coming from one of the world's largest economies, these preemptive legislative efforts have impressive clout.

Opponents of preemptive action say we should try containing Iraq.

But a preliminary estimate of the human, economic, and environmental costs of a war should make enough people think twice, lobby hard against military actions by all sides, and support legislative efforts to prevent Trump from launching a preemptive strike without congressional approval.

If escalation had appeared inevitable, however, or if the United States had appeared to be preparing a first strike, then Soviet doctrine would have called for a preemptive blow against the United States' long-range arsenal in an effort to reduce damage to the Soviet Union.

Considerable research efforts have been devoted to minimizing the route recovery delay or to anticipating link breaks by using preemptive mechanisms.