Sentence examples for preventive strikes from inspiring English sources
But that doesn't mean automatically that a green light is to be given to preventive strikes.
Defense Minister Sergei B. Ivanov said Russia was prepared to use preventive strikes against any terrorist target in the world.
There is talk in Moscow about possibly deploying new medium-range missiles in Kaliningrad, and even about possible preventive strikes against future NATO B.M.D. systems.
Yet preventive strikes to take out North Korea's deadliest weapons and/or decapitate the leadership likely would trigger horrendous, full-scale war.
"What is now an imminent threat is a risk without parallel — a preventive strike, a first strike against Iran, which would have terrible consequences".
According to Mr. Longuet, Israel, in the context of a discussion of a preventive strike, was "within its role to pull an alarm signal".
The Azerbaijanis talk increasingly of a military solution to the conflict; Armenians speak of a preventive strike.The provocations go deeper.
That in turn leads the Obama administration to ratchet up the sanctions to persuade the Israelis that there is a viable alternative to a preventive strike.
During the months leading up to war, many conservative commentators and policy makers fanned out across the news media to support the president's case for a preventive strike against Iraq.
In "Bomb-Bomb-Bomb, Bomb-Bomb-Iran?" (column, Jan . 23, Bill Keller mocks my proposal for a preventive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, but the alternative policy options are even less attractive.
"I did this out of goodness, not evil," Mr. Breivik said as he read from his statement, calling his actions "a preventive strike" and saying "I acted in self-defense on behalf of my people, my city, my country".
