" But pride and tension ensure that a pre-emptive strike on the Telmarine court is a fiasco. ("Peter the Impetuous" might be a more fitting moniker.) None of this is in Lewis, but the thwarted assault is the most exciting set piece in the picture and would not look out of place beside Peter Jackson's work in "Lord of the Rings.
Israel has hinted in recent months that it may carry out a pre-emptive strike.
But Netanyahu told CNN he has not said Israel should consider a pre-emptive strike.
And he called the IRA statement a "publicity stunt" and an attempt to make a pre-emptive strike.
Unease in the cabinet is mirrored by opinion polls, which have repeatedly shown large majorities against a pre-emptive strike.
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Mr Blair's decision to highlight the government's investment plans was a pre-emptive strike.
Some say that would have resulted in a military concentration considered highly vulnerable, should Iraq have mounted a pre-emptive strike.
The announcement was dampened somewhat by a pre-emptive strike that Intel made last week, when it introduced some low-power chips of its own.
In what can only be interpreted as a pre-emptive strike against the upcoming consoles from Sony and Microsoft, NVIDIA has announced GeForce Experience.
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The vessels currently provide a nuclear deterrent because the submarines, under the waves in secret locations, would be almost impossible to destroy in a pre-emptive strike.
He knew that they were planning to cause a stink anyway at Bournemouth and may have felt that he had nothing to lose by launching a pre-emptive strike.
The wider world will examine these results for clues about Israel's future attitude towards peace talks with the Palestinians or the possibility of a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
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Instead, it pushed Israel into launching a pre-emptive strike.
"More importantly though, it is a pre-emptive strike aimed at its competitors who are soon to launch tariffs of their own once the long-overdue auction of 4G licences is completed, " he added.
The Metropolitan Police says it has made more than 90 arrests for ticket-related offences in the past 18 months in a pre-emptive strike against individuals and criminal networks in the build-up to the Olympics.
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Over the past fortnight, a number of articles have appeared in Israeli newspapers claiming that the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and the defence minister, Ehud Barak, have dusted off long-standing plans for a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
The possibility of an Israeli pre-emptive strike is a further source of instability in an already volatile region.
It concluded that they were all more vulnerable to interception or pre-emptive strike than a submarine-launched system, and none was cheaper.
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Already, taxi drivers have gone on strike in Paris and elsewhere as a pre-emptive move against deregulation.
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