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Opinion Chinese Banks Need a Pre-emptive Bailout The report didn't provide details on the rate.
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Pre-emptive efforts by banking interests ensure open debates are nonexistent.
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Pre-emptive use of force, the intentional targeting of suspected belligerents, not posing a direct or immediate, threat or involvement in actions that threaten [Human Life], or suspected provability of a future but in the present non-existent threat in any area were warlike or hostile conditions exist of [UN/ISAF] operations is [Forbidden].
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I do pray that Pres Obama is not going to rush into any 'Pre-emptive' war with anyone.
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Pre-emptive Strike Strategy posted at eInquisitive | Giving you something productive to think about!.
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Pre-emptive action (which the Catholic Church DOES NOT state is intrinsically immoral) involves the 'how' and 'when' justifiable force is used.
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Pre-emptive action is more cost-effective than post-conflict catch-up; an activity that, despite its rocky record, continues to garner the lion's share of international attention and funding.
Nicholas van Praag: Prevention Is Better Than Post-Conflict Catch-Up Nicholas van Praag 2010
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With the [MIC] Military Industrial Complex under inadequate and unqualified leadership has been waging constant and unrelenting wars of Economic Stimulus, Resources and Markets, Blood for Oil, Pre-emptive Wars of Peace thru War, as justified, with each following the same pattern of [more time, more money, more troops, more mission creep] and for this reason the Eternal Wheel of Fate has turned, bringing a new Era and a new Empire.
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Pre-emptive Pay Hike It's good to be wanted, as Donald Wood, president and chief executive of shopping center landlord Federal Realty Investment Trust, learned this month.
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Pre-emptive steps and effective measures for countering external shocks must be taken to minimize any effects.
Korea's New Resilience Bahk Jae-wan 2012
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