| If responder does not have a five card suit nor stoppers in opponent's preempt, he is forced to cue bid spades and your defensive contract becomes uncomfortably high. |
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| This largely symbolic motion, which passed, was designed to preempt a more extreme one planned by the separatist Bloc Québécois. |
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| It is not possible at this point to preempt the recommendations of the Task Force in this regard. |
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| Allow hosts within a redundancy group that have a better advbase and advskew to preempt the master. |
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| Regulated retail tariffs can have highly distortive effects and in certain cases preempt the creation of liberalised markets. |
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| Its recommendations should be studied seriously, though they should not be allowed to preempt strategic development. |
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| Explore and identify opportunities raised by the crisis and draw lessons in order to preempt the eruption of such crises in the future. |
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| Delays in alerting the crew may preempt the taking of appropriate action and may result in serious injury. |
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| The reintroduction programme will need to continue to be carefully monitored to try to preempt further problems with future solitary males. |
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| To avoid blame, Cantor claimed that the Democrats were intending to do the same and he just wanted to preempt them. |
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| Tokyo was hoping to preempt a more nationalistic potential buyer from making the purchase. |
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| So this year, take action and preempt the chocolate raid by making him these fabulous melting and fudgy brownies for Father's Day. |
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| The Indian government has demanded access to Headley to determine if he has information that could preempt other attacks. |
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| That same day British forces landed in Iceland and the Faroes to preempt a possible German invasion of the islands. |
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| It is becoming increasingly clear, it seems to me, that if we want prudential supervision to effectively preempt the build up of imbalances, it has to act more directly on individual and collective incentives. |
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| Group failovers now work without carp running preempt mode. |
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| Mindful of autumn frustrations and spring hopes building during his decade-long rule, Milosevic customarily called elections in the dead of winter, when harsh weather might preempt some opposition outrage. |
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| This is one more argument for why we need the government to provide some umbrella in terms of some way to reimburse on the legal fees front to preempt this unfair distribution of their tariffs. |
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| I am conscious of the complex technical nature of many of the subjects you will discuss and I shall not presume to preempt the experts' discussions on these questions. |
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| The European research system most be organised in such a way as to preempt and take account of needs arising at the different stages of implementation of public polices: drafting, decision-taking, implementation, monitoring. |
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| We do our best to preempt these scenarios with a variety of internal programs designed to enhance interpersonal skills and better understand the respective role of other investigative bodies. |
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| If the opposition does not preempt this Parliament and allows the election to go ahead in the time that it was intended, we will even bring it forward in this Parliament. |
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| A site audit is a formal process in which an evaluator ensures that all aspects of DCC service delivery and business management are reviewed and monitored to preempt any potential problems. |
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| The supremacy clause, however, has at times been invoked to preempt state concurrent powers, for instance in recent years regarding the regulation of air and water pollution. |
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