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  • s  designed or having the power to deter or prevent an anticipated situation or occurrence

  • Americans don't want to sustain one pre-emptive war, let alone start others.
  • The model is called pre-emptive prosecution, and like other pre-emptive strikes of late, it is risky.
  • Yet pre-emptive strikes can often be justified even if they don't meet the letter of the law.
News & Articles

  • Warner Bros. Nabs Sci-Fi Thriller 'Defenders' for Donald De Line to Produce (Exclusive)
    By Jeff Sneider LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - In a pre-emptive pitch deal, Warner Bros. has acquired sci-fi thriller "Defenders," based on the upcoming novel by Hugo Award-winning author Will McIntosh. Donald De Line ("Pain and Gain") will produce through his De Line Pictures banner, while Will Simmons ("Murder City") will write the script. WB is keeping the logline under wraps. Lightspeed ...
    June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
  • Romo questions validity of NFLN Top 100 list
    In what could be a pre-emptive strike at the possibility his name won’t appear among the final 30 names to be unveiled in NFL Network’s 10-week space-filling extravaganza (have you heard about our Mt. Rushmore series?), Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has questioned the overall validity of a Top 100 list premised on a supposed player…
    June 12, 2013 - NBC Sports: ProFootballTalk
  • Joseph Gerth | McConnell was on the menu at Wendell Ford Dinner
    Republicans were so convinced the Democrats were going to attack U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell at Thursday's Wendell Ford Dinner that they sent out a pre-emptive news release.
    June 9, 2013 - Louisville Courier-Journal
Quotes

  • Oliver Stone in Irish Examiner
    It includes his belief that God personally chose him to be president of the United States, and his coming into his own with the stunning, pre-emptive attack on Iraq,Stone added.
  • Stjepan Mesic in International Herald Tribune
    We now have endorsed the concept of pre-emptive war where we go to war with another nation militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened, if we want to change the regime there or if we fear that some time in the future our... Jimmy Carter http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGvgCuAi1KzrhIeWzdOkOZTr2npBA ABC News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory%3Fid%3D3192535&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHnWfMpjWkWYzaLYptsHyobJDUyqQ May 19, 2007 76687 103686 pre-emptive The use of force, however indispensable ...... will not resolve anything in the long run," said Mesic. "Neither will pre-emptive action outside the United Nations."

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