Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to preëmption.
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- adjective Pertaining to
preemption .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Many of them involved pre-trial maneuvering such as asking for additional "preemptory" challenges to potential jurors.
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If it turns out that the preemptory killing of terrorists happens very often, then we will want to find out if “fast, decisive action” has turned into a policy that should be subject to review, so be it.
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The military council has selectively consulted, but failed to include, leaders of the rebellion in its administration; it communicates mainly through preemptory communiques.
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First, only courts within the Eighth Circuit are bound by Brady, and it is a virtual certainty that any antitrust suit brought by the NBA players would not be filed in a court within the Eighth Circuit the NBA filed its preemptory legal action in NY, and the players would likely file their suit in an employee-friendly jurisdiction like California.
Gabriel A. Feldman: The Legal Issues Behind the NBA Players' Decertification Strategy
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The preemptory challenges did not have to be justified or explained.
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That way, Karp would have to use his last preemptory challenge to knock him off the panel.
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The question Libertarians must ask themselves before their moment in the limelight passes again is this: will you accede to a preemptory move by the GOP to put you in their estimation of your proper place, subservient to the modern equivalent of the East India Tea Company?
Stephen Herrington: Newt, the Tea Party Is Already the Militant Arm of the GOP
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Karp had used twenty-nine of his preemptory challenges and had only one left.
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The question Libertarians must ask themselves before their moment in the limelight passes again is this: will you accede to a preemptory move by the GOP to put you in their estimation of your proper place, subservient to the modern equivalent of the East India Tea Company?
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Ronnie comes bounding up the long, pepper-tree-lined driveway, having just put the latest passers-by in their place with a preemptory bark, and gives me a standing double high five against my crotch, making me spill half my tea.
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