(n.) The act or right of purchasing before others.
(n.) The privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the king of buying provisions for his household in preference to others.
(n.) The right of an actual settler upon public lands (particularly those of the United States) to purchase a certain portion at a fixed price in preference to all other applicants.
Example Sentences:
(1) This latter observation, along with nucleotide complementarity between portions of the early leader and attenuator sequences, are consistent with preemption of attenuation by the early leader.
(2) This sequence is also seen as a circumspection-preemption-control cycle that Kelly (1955) suggested was essential to all problem solving.
(3) These data suggest that antigen-nonspecific suppression mediated by alloactivated lymphocytes has two related components: 1) cytokine preemption by suppressive (alloactivated) lymphocytes, and 2) MLC responder cell dilution by the progeny of suppressive lymphocytes.
(4) The mechanism of suppression therefore may be identical to the preemption phenomenon recently described in primary and secondary CML.
(5) Protection from passive anaphylaxis in parasitized guinea pigs was most likely due to preemption of mast cell receptors by parasite-induced antibody with consequent blockage of passive sensitization.
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).