Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor pre-empt
1. Some historians believe that his intended victims acted to pre–empt the blow.
2. The law on shoplifting will have to be rewritten to pre–empt sleep inertia defences.
3. "Senior ministers should not be trying to pre–empt a full parliamentary and public debate.
4. "Now with these protests they are trying to pre–empt his New Year message.
5. Having anticipated threat they wanted to pre–empt that threat by taking military action.