preemptive

IPA: priˈɛmptɪv

Examples of "preemptive" in Sentences

We both now practice what we call preemptive oversight.
The French destroyed the country's Air Force in what it called a preemptive strike after an attack killed nine French troops over the weekend.
MILLER: Well, I think that this is part of a gradual shift that we have seen in the administration towards what we call a preemptive doctrine.
There was the removal of the U.N. Troops, the closure of the Straits of Tiran, and then the Israelis attacked in what they call a preemptive move.
The term preemptive gets bantered around a lot on thie subject of this war but preventive is more accurate, although its sounds a lot less P(ublic)R(elations)-correct.
No. I actually -- I have some celebrities who do what I call a preemptive strike like one time Alec Baldwin came up to me and whispered in my ear, I think you're hilarious.
Preventive war has been described as an important element of the Bush Doctrine, although the U.S. government read bushco doublespeak uses the term preemptive in a way which is partly consistent with international usage…
Strategic Command charged with, among other things, ensuring that we dominate the heavens, and the newest of all the “geographic” commands, CYBERCOM, expected to be fully operational later this fall with “1,000 elite military hackers and spies under one four-star general” prepared to engage in preemptive war in cyberspace.