Emptive in a sentence

And would not a pre-emptive strike on Iran unite its people in hatred of us, just as Japan’s pre-emptive strike on Pearl Harbor united us in a determination to annihilate her empire?

Human rights lawyer Pearl Eliadis called the municipalities' legal approach "more creative" because it doesn't mainly rely on challenging the province's pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Constitution.

North Korea's missile tests have been punctuated by threats of pre-emptive nuclear attacks against South Korea or the United States over what it perceives as a broad range of scenarios that put its leadership under threat.

Officers from Worcestershire Operational Patrol Unit (OPU) pursued it and used pre-emptive tactics to box in the vehicle.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has criticized the pre-emptive use of the provision and during a 2021 interview told The Canadian Press he shares the disdain his father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, had for its place in the charter.

Russian president Vladimir Putin offers familiar, insultingly spurious pretexts to international press conferences, the well-worn “pre-emptive strike” analysis.

There were no pre-emptive intelligence reports supplied by the police.

You can see from the documents that the Americans are starting to spin ideas they have about Saddam Hussein and his options for pre-emptive military action.

According to the general, Ukrainian special forces had planned to achieve this goal, but the operation was thwarted by the pre-emptive actions of Russian troops.

Apart from former President Jonathan’s pre-emptive concession of defeat nine years ago, Nigeria is perhaps the continent’s capital of disputed elections.

As Easter approaches, Inspector Boyce underscored the importance of pre-emptive action, particularly regarding road safety on popular kite-flying days.

Direct marketers must ‘cleanse’ their databases monthly by removing any consumer data associated with individuals who have registered a pre-emptive block.

Hezbollah has denied that Israel’s strikes were “pre-emptive” and played down Israel’s claim that its strikes had caused significant damage.

Law said in the statement that he moved his head forward in a “pre-emptive strike” to defend himself against the former Sunderland manager.

One of his methods in the past saw him tell Putin to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against Europe so they could test the Nato resolve and unity.

On Friday, the latest strikes were reported by Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council in the White House John Kirby who said this was the fourth pre-emptive action by the US military targeting Houthi missile launchers.

Scotchgard water shield fabric protector is a pre-emptive lifesaver: spray it all over white jackets, suede trousers or delicate party dresses to repel stains and watermarks.

The importance is to have every point in his favour taken before a bench of distinguished international judges, hearing and deciding whether the pernicious Bush doctrine of pre-emptive self-defence plays any part in the law.

The pardon also raised questions about whether he would issue sweeping pre-emptive pardons for administration officials and other allies who the White House worries could be unjustly targeted by Mr Trump’s second administration.

How can we know if pre-emptive lockdowns would be better than the alternative approach of tightening social restrictions only when cases rise and loosening them when numbers fall?