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  • Opinion Chinese Banks Need a Pre-emptive Bailout The report didn't provide details on the rate.

    China Construction Bank Raises Mortgage Rates 2011

  • Pre-emptive efforts by banking interests ensure open debates are nonexistent.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 4, 2010 2010

  • 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].

    Matthew Yglesias » What if Bernanke Isn’t Reconfirmed 2010

  • I do pray that Pres Obama is not going to rush into any 'Pre-emptive' war with anyone.

    Cheney: Obama pretending we are not at war 2009

  • Pre-emptive Strike Strategy posted at eInquisitive | Giving you something productive to think about!.

    Creative Carnival: September 2009 « Write Anything 2009

  • Pre-emptive action (which the Catholic Church DOES NOT state is intrinsically immoral) involves the 'how' and 'when' justifiable force is used.

    "Can the killing of abortionists be justified?" 2009

  • 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

  • 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.

    Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

  • 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.

    Louisville Deal Pushes Limits 2010

  • 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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