Sentence examples for preemptive moves from inspiring English sources

In fact, Google and Yahoo, have been making preemptive moves in an attempt to stave off regulation.

In many cases, leading acquirers appear to be making preemptive moves for attractive assets, so they don't risk competitors taking the deals or paying up as valuations rise in the future.

QUESTION FROM DAN BOGDAN: Do you support the idea of a preemptive move into Iran in order to attempt precluding nuclear capability?

This latest round of bids was apparently prompted by an unexpected, perhaps preemptive, move three weeks ago by Charles Dolan of Cablevision.

While Bacquelaine admitted there was little problem with full facial covering among Muslims in Belgium, he argued for a preemptive move, saying: "We have to act as of today to avoid [its] development".

In a preemptive move to protect revenue, Merck recently launched a drug with partner Schering-Plough, Vytorin, which combines Zocor and Schering's Zetia.

Expect Intel to make a preemptive move and introduce the Pentium III also known as Katmai in the first half of February 1999.

(The announcement comes on the same day that competitor Retweet is launching, and is a bit of a preemptive move to try to announce something better).

This preemptive move has shut down BTCChina's most lucrative source of income and put a damper on Chinese popular excitement over the currency.

In a preemptive move 13 flush alums in 2007 gave $85 million to the century-old Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin in Madison on condition the school's name wouldn't be changed (meaning, sold) for 20 years.

But it does show that as Nokia prepares to compete with Google-based Android phones, the cell phone leader will incorporate some basic Google functionality into its own phones as a preemptive move.