| So the agencies hope to pre-empt Congress, in part to preserve their own discretion. |
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| First, it is clear the authorities did little or nothing to pre-empt the events of last year. |
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| The last thing the nation needed was for its Prime Minister to pre-empt such a debate by writing his own preamble. |
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| The central bank apparently decided to pre-empt the politicians, but the move has raised doubts about the true degree of its independence. |
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| Of course, the media is always trying to pre-empt events, but where there is smoke there is fire. |
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| Significantly, the 1866 ordinance required that only British subjects or naturalized aliens could pre-empt land. |
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| Dulles's precipitous move to withdraw the offer thus appears as an attempt to pre-empt such action by the Committee. |
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| Often the coup is undertaken to pre-empt revolutionary change from below and impose a measure of reform from above. |
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| Audience participation was animated to the point that the quizmaster had to hush the audience during the tie to pre-empt prompts. |
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| The ploy was intended to defuse tensions and pre-empt a possible rebellion in the Campo. |
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| If an energy bill is passed, Congress may pre-empt all or part of the EPA's powers to regulate GHG emissions. |
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| For this campaign Soviet troops used parachute formations on a large scale to occupy the ports of Dairen and Port Arthur to pre-empt an anticipated American landing. |
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| The company's spring meeting was the occasion for the shareholders to pre-empt the governing board by throwing down the gauntlet on finance and management of services. |
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| But in a subtle way, these non-rational taboos could discredit and pre-empt the application of rational criteria in other spheres. |
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| I am sorry that some of the other parties did not agree to pre-empt that situation in this report. |
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| If we now pre-empt the conclusions, before the forum is set up, we will not be acting in a proper way. |
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| Further, it must be impartial and must not pre-empt the views or decisions of Member States. |
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| Employers seeking to pre-empt, detect or verify wrongdoing by employees may resort to the use of video surveillance. |
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| According to the host State, provisional application would pre-empt the outcome of the parliamentary approval procedures. |
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| The President stressed that the proposed standards were not intended to pre-empt future legislative acts. |
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| And so my estimation is that conservatives and ideologues in the party are using this trial to silence ad pre-empt that discussion. |
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| This enables you to pre-empt any suggestion that no favourable funding is available for your investments. |
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| Traumatized people may try to compensate for their feelings of fear and vulnerability by using anger to pre-empt any perceived potential threat. |
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| To pre-empt that process by false praise or empty reassurance is not to further the growth of the individual but to cripple it. |
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| Neither party should engage in efforts or take actions that could unilaterally pre-empt, or appear to pre-empt, negotiations. |
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| According to the vice president, we will strive to prevent threats but not pre-empt them. |
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| They are trying to pre-empt this decision by setting up a shadow board of directors now. |
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| But when has weight of numbers been a reason to pre-empt the outcome of a parliamentary inquiry or cut it short? |
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| Moments of relative calm often pre-empt more abrupt and ferocious constructions. |
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| As if to pre-empt accusations of faint-heartedness, the younger Schumacher went out in his Williams-BMW and set the day's fastest time. |
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| Did Catherine accept the role to pre-empt and disarm her critics? |
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| Why, then, pre-empt programs for such little gain? |
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| This sets the right expectations for business dealings and can pre-empt problematic requests or activities, such as orders for supply of counterfeit products. |
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| Sometimes we can pre-empt what people want but qualitative research is essential. |
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| We don't want to pre-empt that, but having said that, we do have thoughts and comments that we can make regarding your question on temperature and the implications for the early Stuart and so forth. |
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| All our policies are developed based on sound scientific facts about risk and are intended to reduce or pre-empt the introduction of those risks to recipients of blood products. |
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| Disaster risk reduction seeks to pre-empt a disaster and also to put in place, following a disaster, a rehabilitation process that rebuilds resilience to future disasters. |
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| We have to assume the reality of threats to national security and provide for the maximum possible capacity to know, pre-empt and respond to such threats. |
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| Peacebuilding can be a form of prevention that seeks to pre-empt the relapse into conflict of countries that have emerged from war. |
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| However, I do not wish to pre-empt the debate or close off avenues of discussion that correspond to your concerns and interests. |
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| Hot chocolate warms me before I retire to my room for a pre-dinner nap and a good long soak in the bath to pre-empt any aches and pains from the day's exercise. |
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| What if we pre-empt the rhythm of readiness with premature publicity? |
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| The second weapon depends on the passing of a federal energy strategy law or a climate and energy strategy law, which would pre-empt any other form of greenhouse gas regulation. |
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| The Liberals were trying to act before that would happen to pre-empt the inevitable and get on the hustings before the truth came out. |
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| The in-depth reform of INDI must not pre-empt or thwart the freedom of indigenous organizations and peoples to act and make decisions exclusively by themselves. |
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| Convention case law reveals several examples of cases where parties or a court seek to pre-empt future litigation over the appropriate venue by fixing jurisdiction in the Contracting State currently seized of the action. |
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| After the first Round of 1812, the Power with the most playable cards-counting unplayed Home cards-may pre-empt the Order of Play. |
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| In addition to the current work being done by Political Affairs Department, the AU needs to do more in the preelection phase to pre-empt election-related conflicts through conflict management, resolution and transformation. |
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| Martin Weale and Ian McCafferty argued that the Bank needed to act now in order to pre-empt wage and inflationary pressures further ahead. |
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| The main question is whether progress will continue, and whether it will pre-empt a more serious threat. It is hard to say if either H7N9 or the new coronavirus will be pathogens that put the world to the test. |
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| Better yet, use dedicated material lines for JIT applications to pre-empt this problem. |
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| Before you start, read through the instructions on your pattern well so that you don't pre-empt steps and have to waste time unpicking later. |
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| Kazakhstan's National Bank devalued the tenge, Kazakh currency, to pre-empt potential problems in the economy. |
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| His latest weasel words, offered to an American TV network, were clearly timed to pre-empt the Chilcot Inquiry's final publication. |
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| To pre-empt Republican charges that Mr. Dean had been sprung on them, Mr. Dash scheduled a special Saturday session at which Mr. Thompson could question the former counsel in strict confidence. |
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| Learning by doing,even in an artificial environment,can help the teams to understand the materials and pre-empt some errors that can commonly occur. |
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| Eight, we need to support the peace process in Abuja, but not allow it to become a diversionary tactic or to allow it to pre-empt what otherwise needs to be done to fulfill our civilian protection mandate. |
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| A federal law would be intended to pre-empt state laws. |
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| Finally, it is important to draw a distinction between remedies that address past offences and those that are designed to pre-empt or forestall future offences. |
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| We aim to be at the cutting edge of the industry, to pre-empt farmers' needs through superior resources, technical expertise and service second to none. |
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| The oddity of Obama's being taken to the leadership woodshed by the Democrat who preceded him and the Republican who failed to pre-empt him was not lost on anyone. |
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| Otherwise, any attempt to pre-empt the circumstances in which a particular manner of questioning is to be conducted will be unhelpful, because the Chamber will need to respond on a case-by-case basis. |
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| Furthermore, inoculative biological control can include applying benefical species that may simply pre-empt pest infection or persistence on the affected crop. |
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