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1. ’ He said pre-empting her question
2. ’ He said, pre-empting any further comment
3. When Wiesse was doling out the rooms, I wasn’t entirely sure that he didn’t put us in together so as to pre-empt any pre-marital activities between Caderl and Gilla, but neither of them gave any indication that the arrangements were not as they wanted …
4. ’ He said, pre-empting my next question
5. ’ I said, pre-empting the question I can see hovering in the air above his head
6. As expected, Anna is walking this way, I pre-empt her, ‘Before you go jumping to conclusions, Anna, he slept on the sofa!’
7. Despite this, she didn’t say anything to Ozzie – he’d find out in due course, no point pre-empting things
8. I ask him what he wants me to say about his pieces but he pre-empts me by handing me a crib sheet on which he has written all the salient information
9. The arrival of the white truck was pre-empted by orange flashes reflecting off the airplane’s paintwork and the sound of its horn
10. Debates on the Russian president’s pre-emptive stance: would the Americans fear the ultimate hostile response enough to back down? Were the words used in his address malevolent or simply uncompromising? His state of mind had also been questioned
11. Yes, and they are brilliant on pre-emptive strikes to destabilise the enemy and not scared to do so whatever the world thinks about it or not
12. Such murders are not difficult to investigate as the culprit does not see such an act as murder, but as a pre-emptive strike to defend himself and his family
13. ) Adopting conspicuously faulty and (otherwise) self-serving reasoning conveniently side-steps a very important fact; that we all exist in a less than perfect world subject to changing fortunes and other unexpected events that routinely challenge our mettle; and that Nature, however, has its own inestimable manner of compensating each of us with an innate capacity to endure hardships and rise above our present condition however unfavorable or improbable our prospects for a ―better‖ life may appear and that an individual‘s threshold for suffering and privation oftentimes vary in proportion to that individual‘s (mental) endurance and acquired habits in spite of that individual‘s accustomed environment and in any event, such (gratuitous) impressions are problematical at best and should not serve as a litmus test in determining who should or should not be permitted to live or given an equal opportunity to exercise free choice(s) pre-empted by selfish motives indifferent to such rights; motives whose arbitrary designs are (otherwise) impervious to the apparent limits or consequences of questionable solutions whose (hardened) indifference to Life must inevitably diminish the (inherent) value a society confers upon its citizens regardless of their station in life
14. Once fully stocked and almost trained a pre-emptive strike was made destroying it and the human material
15. Secondly, they used neighbouring countries as springboards for their attacks which prompted many pre-emptive strikes which is allowed under International Law but did the Rhodesian reputation nothing good
16. The Rhodesian forces made many pre-emptive strikes called raids into neighbouring countries to disrupt the terrorists before they could get to Rhodesia and though very successful in kills it was too little too late
17. Furthermore they had a first-rate armaments industry and needed very little outside assistance in this regard and the political will to conduct pre-emptive strikes into neighbouring countries when needed
18. This and the presence of the MIG23's certainly worried the South Africans but the invasion never happened as the peace accords was signed before a pre-emptive strike (the predictable South African response) could be launched
19. Hence this message to stay out of Africa with your military unless it is for a very short time as in a pre-emptive strike
20. Extra-Legal activities designed to pre-empt Rule of Law, in whatever manner they may (otherwise) produce some ―desired‖ effect, should be properly treated with caution
21. These (latent) voters, understood as the ―Silent Majority‖, had been posed since the late sixties to launch a pre-emptive strike against their own (Democratic) party in favor of Conservative candidates perceived as sympathetic to populist viewpoints that made many of them feel like outcasts in their own party
22. They foresaw our coming and they knew they could not match two Councils of Wizards, so they are moving pre-emptively to secure a victory,” I said
23. As Selma had surmised the news had pre-empted all other
24. Lieutenant Rymson spoke to Ken quietly, “The prosecution thinks it can win without a pre-emptory challenge
25. which was, I guess, Dana’s way of pre-empting the questioning
26. That way he could hopefully pre-empt another evening being lost to a family row
27. An unsuccessful pre-emptive strike could also cause him to immediately send Marianne out of the country - as was perhaps his original intention, or even eliminate her!
28. stringent conditions; to pre-empt such a dismal outcome occurring in the future
29. If there’s a one percent chance that Bush and Cheney, in the time after January 2009, decide to lead another country, shouldn’t pre-emptive action be taken?
30. Those last two wars were pre-emptive: the first country attacking the second one to prevent an attack by the latter on the first country
31. but we need a pre-emptive strike' said Jack
32. In the new mission of protecting the US from strategic assault, I’d have us continue the best eyes and ears and the best pre-emptive and/or survivable force needed to defeat a nuclear attack or an invasion
33. A special tool was fashioned at a machine shop, to pre-empt any problems during removal of the corroded wheel nuts
34. The British came up with a far superior defensive plan such as pre-emptive attacks on staging areas, interdiction at sea and all-out assaults at the landing points
35. If Japan's fleet were destroyed by a pre-emptive U
36. ” Star explained, pre-empting questions about the weight
37. Rudolph pre-empted her questions by discretely explaining five hours of coastline search today had produced the same result as other days
38. fears and pre-empt speculation by taking the four hundred employees into our
39. This is a pre-emptive strike
40. President,” they stated that their takeover of the facilities was a pre-emptive
41. As that confrontation was taking place, the Chairman of the Stock Exchange was giving a press conference to express his pre-emptive action to the financial media
42. In fact he on more than one occasion pre-empted the question by giving information voluntarily
43. I have to pre-empt this post by stating that the ability to laugh at yourself is a great gift
44. With Captain Ventris of the Tower Guard and sixty of his best men, they would mount a pre-emptive strike into the heart of the enemy camp
45. who engineered the further suckering and brainwashing of the American Nation; by censoring and pre-empting all media, and replacing all actual facts and news; with his own personal fireside chats
46. His invading of France was a defensive reactive counter-strike against the French and British armies who were invading the neutrality of Belgium, in their pre-emptive attack on Germany, seeking to copy the old German WW1 Schlieffen plan in reverse
47. They tried to pre-empt them
48. Ongoing acts of “doing less than good”, can precipitate, pre-empt and predispose Self into acts of further transgressions against Self and others as we become desensitized from the perpetuating destructiveness
49. I, of course, had to admit to this, but added that I was looking to strengthen our relationship, not weaken it, by taking pre-emptive action against a potential problem
50. Just when you’re ready to walk-out, he could pre-empt you