Sentence examples for preemptive statement from inspiring English sources

He also issued a preemptive statement Thursday calling on the president to shy away from cuts to Social Security.

"Rather than indemnifying Al Jazeera as they were required to do, Gore and Hyatt have resorted to a preemptive lawsuit and lawyer-driven public relations maneuvers," Al Jazeera said in its statement. .

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

The Pentagon has contingency plans for using nuclear weapons despite public statements saying that the country's nuclear forces would never be used in a preemptive first strike.

"From this moment, the first-strike combined units of the Korean People's Army keep themselves fully ready to mount a preemptive retaliatory strike at all enemy attack groups involved in Ulji Freedom Guardian," a KPA spokesman said in a statement carried by the North's state-run KCNA news agency.

Defensiveness, a preemptive fear of being mocked?

Preemptive action can make a difference.

Con Edison announced probable preemptive power outages in Manhattan and South Brooklyn.

It is not a preemptive concession in some arcane negotiation.

Is a "prevent defense" anything like a "preemptive war"?

Previously, Herman Cain called preemptive force against Iran his "option B".