They decided to launch a pre-emptive strike.

他们决定发动先发制人的攻击。

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The InstantRails codebase was quite old too - historically it dated pre-2005 I believe - and we decided a new codebase was the quickest path.

InstantRails的代码基也太老了——我相信它可以追溯到2005年之前——我们认为开始新的代码基是最快的途经了。

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In May 2011, the Supreme Court decided in Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting that Arizona's employer sanctions law was not pre-empted because it promoted the objectives of federal law.

2011年5月，最高法院在商会与鳕鱼协会的诉讼中裁定亚利桑那州的雇主处罚法与联邦法律并不冲突，因为它促进了联邦法律目标的实现。

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Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, if he wanted a judge who pre-decided cases before hearing the evidence and facts.

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On one hand they are an alternative to shares, with a pre-decided fixed income and (in theory at least) returning the full principle back at the end of a set term.

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The first part of the book is a mixture of psychology and trendy neuroscience research that presents the evidence for Mr Shermer's central claim: that, instead of shaping belief around painstakingly gathered, soberly judged evidence, people most often decide upon their beliefs first, and then use an impressive range of cognitive tricks to bend whatever evidence they do discover into support for those pre-decided acts of faith.

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