(v. t. & i.) To settle upon (public land) with a right of preemption, as under the laws of the United States; to take by preemption.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one patient the information obtained by two-dimensional echocardiographic studies was believed to be sufficient to preempt the need for cardiac catheterization.
(2) It is concluded that cytologic examination of colonic brushings is a highly accurate and reliable technique for the detection of malignant neoplasms of the colon and can preempt the use of biopsy forceps.
(3) The influences of Li or protons, however, are so strong as to preempt the volume effects, so that the pathway can be activated even in swollen cells and deactivated in shrunken ones.
(4) A proactive style of preempting opportunities for misbehavior, in contrast to a reactive style of responding only after misbehavior occurred, was correlated with a lower incidence of undesirable child acts.
(5) As transcription proceeds, it is preempted by formation of an alternative domain designated stem-loop IV.
(6) In a written statement earlier this week , the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, sought to preempt the committee by asserting the UK would continue to export weapons to Saudi Arabia, claiming the “key test” of a serious risk of breach of international humanitarian law had not been met.
(7) Though Washington law does not preempt federal statute, under which marijuana is still illegal, the Justice Department assured Washington governor Jay Inslee that it would not sue to overturn the state’s development of a highly regulated marijuana market.
(8) "In the Senate and in America, the concerns that kept us out of Kyoto back in 1997 are still with us today, and we need to preempt them here in Copenhagen," Kerry warned.
(9) The "security hypothesis" suggests food hoarding by rats serves to preempt attack and therefore might be motivated by "anxiety".
(10) The federal requirements, while not preempting state law damages claims, do provide a mechanism for achieving some protection from liability.
(11) While MRI has clearly preempted many applications, CT is still the examination of choice in several clinical settings.
(12) Furthermore, Congress, through the Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act and Smokeless Tobacco Education Act, has not preempted or removed the power of states to ban sampling.
(13) Preempting innovations--novel terms identical in form to conventional terms, such as uniforms--provide the means to contrast the models.
(14) We’re working to 2025.” He said he did not believe there was a need to preempt judicial reviews, adding: “The government has been stung by these before so I can understand them wanting to be sure it is robust.” In an unusually strong attack on Gatwick, Holland-Kaye warned that the prime minister had a choice of a third runway at Heathrow or a Gatwick option that “will not get us to emerging markets, which does nothing for the regions of the UK, or for exports, that delivers a fraction of the jobs or the economic benefits, is less financially robust, does not have the support of business or unions, nor the local community, nor the airlines, nor politicians, nor the policy basis of the airports commission.
(15) Without preempting them, I can tell you something about the direction of travel," he told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in central London today.
(16) These unnatural deaths preempted any excess in natural causes before the age of 70 years, such as cardiovascular disease.
(17) The concept of dissociation increasingly preempts repression and other defense mechanisms in current nosological thinking.
(18) The present results indicate that diuretics preempt the appearance of a forthcoming increase in serum glucose and cholesterol, and lessen the clinical relevance of these events.
(19) Joyce had already held a press conference in New England to preempt the announcement.
(20) Thus the ability of the Act to preempt litigation substantially is questionable, the authors state, and they recommend a broader definition.
Preemptive
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to preemption; having power to preempt; preempting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since VCI was not identified prenatally and many of its sequelae are readily identifiable only during the intrapartum period, the potential for preemptive obstetric intervention appears to be limited.
(2) The actuarial graft survival rates in the preemptive group of 83, 81, 76, 73, and 73 percent at 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years were not statistically different from the control group rates, namely 90, 81, 80, 77, and 76 percent.
(3) When the risk of epidemic disease is deemed to be high, preemptive vaccination may be warranted.
(4) The preemptive group included more diabetic patients: 32 versus 15 (P less than 0.01).
(5) Clearly, this legislation was a preemptive strike with the anticipation of a favorable marriage equality ruling,” Kaplan told the Guardian.
(6) Reports said South Korea had prepared a detailed plan for a preemptive strike that would reduce the North’s capital, Pyongyang, to rubble and target the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un.
(7) Documents lodged with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (Asic) confirm several details of the Wired story, including Wright’s role with a company called Hotwire Preemptive Intelligence.
(8) Athletes in Rio test events have tried many tricks and treatments to avoid falling ill, including bleaching rowing oars, hosing off their bodies the second they finish competing, and preemptively taking antibiotics which have no effect on viruses.
(9) But, by acting preemptively, Greek leaders could have shaped the dialogue.
(10) For 20 years Bundy, the 68-year-old patriarch of a family of 14, has defied federal regulators by refusing to pay grazing fees and ignoring court orders to relocate his herd, insisting he has a "preemptive" right because his Mormon ancestors worked the land decades before the BLM was established.
(11) GMP is preventative, promotive, and preemptive; it focuses on behavioral change; it works with the child's complete environment; and it affords responsibility to the mothers.
(12) The model predicts that (a) when people know the views of the audience and are unconstrained by past commitments, they will rely on the low-effort acceptability heuristic and simply shift their views toward those of the prospective audience, (b) when people do not know the views of the audience and are unconstrained by past commitments, they will be motivated to think in relatively flexible, multidimensional ways (preemptive self-criticism), and (c) when people are accountable for positions to which they feel committed, they will devote the majority of their mental effort to justifying those positions (defensive bolstering).
(13) With a possible swine flu pandemic in the offing, the "vaccine strategy" required is critical, particularly as the medical and public health communities in the United States embark on the first systematic attempt in history to blunt preemptively the impact of a pandemic.
(14) We describe a preemptive strategy for clinicians to determine which journals to read on a regular basis.
(15) The results are arranged for the slow and fast drives, respectively, and were as follows: control initiating windows--49.5, 28.5 ms; preemptive pacing initiation windows--151, 38 ms; preexcitation pacing initiation windows--26, 23.5 ms; preconditioning pacing initiation windows--45.5, 35 ms; combined preconditioning and preexcitation pacing initiation windows--10.0, 2.5 ms.
(16) Variations in background exposure intensity may or may not lead preemptively to changes in the cell's capacity for response to radiation damage.
(17) Under the radical action, the fund will be able to intervene on the secondary markets to buy up the bonds of struggling debtor countries, to take preemptive or "precautionary" action to nip a debt crisis in the bud by, for example, agreeing lines of credit, and to supply loans to struggling eurozone countries who would use the money to shore up and recapitalise their banks.
(18) Earlier this year Pyongyang repeated a threat of preemptive nuclear strikes against the US if it believed that joint military drills by the US and South Korea were putting it at risk.
(19) The author draws together several recommendations made in the literature regarding the careful development and implementation of hospital release procedures, including 1) special consultation at the policy development stage, 2) preemptive judgments regarding the adequacy of hospital policies in relation to the professional standard of care, and 3) the use of videotaped exit interviews with patients at the time of their release.
(20) Preemptive recipients were also more likely than control group patients to be employed fulltime both before transplantation (36 vs. 22, P less than 0.05) as well as after transplantation (38 vs. 20, P less than 0.01).