pre-emption , also: preemption
pre-emptive right
preemptive right

The idea of nuclear pre-emption did not begin with the Iraq war.

The problem with pre-emption is keeping the president's war power under democratic control.

Now whether pre-emption is ultimately what has to happen or not I don't know yet.

The Administration proposal did not address the question of state pre-emption.

Q. I wanted to ask you about the policy of pre-emption.

Importantly, the administration has talked about pre-emption in a very public way.

Washington would either have to block Israeli pre-emption or be seen as part of it.

Another fear is that others would follow our example and take up pre-emption as a way of dealing with their problems.

"We never felt there was enough to sustain a pre-emption."

Where is the definition of when pre-emption might actually be justified?

Finally, there is conflict pre-emption in either of two senses.

Pre-emption has always been available as a tool of foreign policy or military doctrine.

Perhaps that period has never happened for you, because of your pre-emption, so nothing is lost."

This suggests that he might well be uneasy with the idea of pre-emption.

The State will also have a kind of right of pre-emption.

The Articles will include rights of pre-emption upon transfer which are appropriate to a private company.

In other words, is it the fact of the pre-emption that matters, or the frequency?

Federal rules allow for such pre-emption, although officials say it is extremely unlikely.

"We do not have a declared policy of pre-emption," a senior administration official said on Friday.

The long history of Federal pre-emption in, for example, labor law, adds another precedent.

Rightly we are resisting the pre-emption of that decision today.

"The issue of pre-emption was thoroughly discussed during the debate on this bill," he said.

The other night, both men attacked the Bush administration's doctrine of "pre-emption."

The doctrine of pre-emption represented a major departure in American foreign policy.

Federal pre-emption may also expand into the area of state regulatory powers.

If the owner wishes to sell the island then the Department has a pre-emptive right.

"We are not speaking about a sale of assets where pre-emptive rights would apply," he said.

In Britain, current shareholders have a pre-emptive right to purchase any new shares offered for sale, with the rest sold on the market.

But during the final interview process, Speyer agreed to pay a significant premium in exchange for pre-emptive rights to the land.

The system of pre-emptive rights partly reflects the great power of the major British investment institutions in their home market.

Shareholders do not have a pre-emptive right to purchase shares sold by other shareholders of the company.

That's W.'s philosophy, too - a pre-emptive right to secretly do everything from war to torture to snooping.

This introduced a system whereby existing shareholders had, in some circumstances, to be afforded pre-emptive rights on an issue of further shares.

However, despite section 89, the statutory pre-emptive rights are far from being entrenched; in certain circumstances they can be modified or waived.

In this context, the pre-emptive right is also called subscription right or subscription privilege.

"In accordance with our legislation, pre-emptive rights belong to us," Mr. Shkolnik said.

This exchange caused brothers to have pre-emptive rights over their sisters as they acted as their personal passage into marriage.

The term Arthurs Seat was first applied to the mountain, then to a squatting run, next to the pre-emptive right and recently to a suburb.

The elective resolution procedure does not apply to the pre-emptive rights since a special resolution procedure is available to change the articles.

A rights issue in which the existing shareholders may exercise their pre-emptive rights to subscribe to the new shares in proportion to those already held.

The 640 acre pre-emptive right, reduced to 600 acres because of land required for Government roads,became known as Tuerong Park.

Mr. Arnault has an agreement with the Moet family that gives him pre-emptive rights if members seek to sell their holdings.

Existing shareholders have pre-emptive rights (Companies Act 1980 S17) to buy new shares in proportion to their existing holdings.

Under Kazakh law, the state oil company, KazMunaiGaz, has a pre-emptive right to buy oil fields.

The transactions are subject to the approval of the Department of Trade and Industry and pre-emptive rights of certain partners.

The Treaty of Waitangi, in the second article, gave the Crown the pre-emptive right for all land purchases from Māori.

"They absolutely do not have any sort of pre-emptive right," said Erwin Hayden, a spokesman for E.ON.

In contrast with the relative simplicity of sections 80 and 80A, the provisions relating to pre-emptive rights (now sections 89 to 96) are complicated and confusing.

They purchased the pre-emptive right of 640 acres, which extended from the McCrae coast to the park boundary at the south end of Cook St.

In addition to a share of profits, the arrangement will give Suntory pre-emptive rights in bidding to take any of the Shubert productions to Japan.