Example sentences for: pre-empt

How can you use “pre-empt” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Next, the spot says the Republicans opposed Clinton on more police and anti-drug programs: another effort to pre-empt, or even reverse, a perennial Republican advantage.

  • Let me pre-empt them and go a step further by pointing out a basic question I've ignored: How does a change in the marriage contract affect a couple's decision about whether to get married in the first place?

  • This is more political jujitsu from Clinton guru Dick Morris, who continues to pre-empt the other side.

  • The Nation 's cover story proposes a "bank holiday," à la FDR, to pre-empt further catastrophe in the global economy.

  • Few were aware, it said, that "Miss Lewinsky received a telephone call from Mr Clinton at 2 a.m. on December 17, 1997, suggesting that she issue a false affidavit to pre-empt a subpoena in the Paula Jones lawsuit"; or that "on January 21, 1998, Mr Clinton told his aide Sidney Blumenthal, falsely, that Miss Lewinsky was a 'stalker,' setting in motion the White House smear campaign against the defenceless, star-struck, exploited girl."


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