Unfortunately, some of those leaders have launched preemptive attacks against the message conveyed by General Petraeus.
For instance, Israel might be deterred from undertaking necessary preemptive action (such as the Osiraq raid).
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Without IOR, QE3, and its covert preemptive bailout of the banking system, would not be feasible.
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They are systems not suited to preemptive warfare and their deployments are impossible to verify effectively.
At times like this, there's only one thing Microsoft can do: launch a preemptive vaporware response.
Similarly, there should be no preemptive reduction of U.S. strategic forces in anticipation of a START accord.
Indonesia's Foreign Minister Ali Alatas, elder statesman of ASEAN foreign ministers, issued a preemptive warning last week.
Clearly this is a preemptive step aimed to prevent liquidity problems becoming systemic as was threatened during 2008.
Of course, no WMDs were ever found, raising serious questions as to whether preemptive military action was warranted.
"Let's be preemptive here and contain it now before it does get out of hand, " said David Kaatrud of the U.N.
An area that deserves close study is the apparent attraction among Chinese strategists to IW as a preemptive weapon.
Rumors of a preemptive strike, either by the U.S. or Israel, are floating.
And now to someone who's long raised questions about the preemptive war doctrine.
The Federal Election Commission could head this off with a preemptive policy statement.
And the White House has released an update of its preemptive war strategy.
Problem is Samsung is a major investor in Nanosys and has a preemptive call on some of its intellectual property.
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To say that the ministry is exercising an abundance of bureaucratic caution (read: preemptive CYA) is to understate the problem.
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Solving that puzzle could yield treatments, but perfecting a potent vaccine would be a preemptive--and far more effective--form of attack.
The Ghanaian government denounced the deal from the beginning, asserting its rights to make its own preemptive bid for Kosmos.
Of course, Democratic visions of a preemptive "censure-plus" deal were always delusional, as were Republican dreams of an abrupt resignation.
Not surprisingly, Democrats are praising them for this preemptive surrender, patting these Republicans on the head for being good little lapdogs.
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On advice from the other widows, Weikel made what she calls a "preemptive strike" on her first Christmas without her husband.
Once such powers of IW are unleashed in a preemptive attack, the ability to control and calibrate forces becomes extremely difficult.
It is clear then, that the use of IW for preemptive purposes could be highly escalatory and unstable in crisis situations.
Mr. Daalder joins us now from Princeton, New Jersey, where he happened to be attending a conference on the preemptive doctrine.
In both Lebanon and Gaza, Israel had previously adopted his strategy of preemptive appeasement by unilaterally surrendering territory to its enemies.
When Google took the wraps off Now we all got a pretty excited about the potential of the preemptive virtual assistant.
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When the issue of launching a preemptive strike to thwart a missile attack came up in the Diet recently, opposition was muted.
Conditions that called for a preemptive tightening in 1994 rapidly rising commodity prices and real short-term interest rates near zero are not present today.
Better to be preemptive with the bloggers and online journalists who cover you: Bring them into the fold early in your career.
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