Word: preempt
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...behooves me to preempt a few likely criticisms. First, this isn’t about free speech. Gomes has the right to say whatever he likes from his pulpit. I write a newspaper column: If anyone is committed to the right of shooting your mouth off, I am. But that right doesn’t shield you from criticism when the things you say are wrong...
...congressmen and many liberal Democrats have yet to be convinced of the need to invade. International Relations Committee Chairman Henry Hyde says he will support military action if the intelligence shows that Saddam clearly is getting a weapon of mass destruction. Hyde would back a U.S. operation to "preempt that...
When I was an intern after finishing medical school, I encountered human suffering for the first time, especially in small children that had a fatal illness. I couldn’t understand how anyone on heaven or on earth who had the ability to preempt this would not do so, and the whole problem of suffering suddenly preoccupied me. Somebody had put a little book called The Problem of Pain by Lewis on the table in the library of the hospital that I was at. It didn’t answer all the questions but it answered some of them...
...Jewish Claims Conference, and the Civil Liberties Act contained an “inheritance provision” that paid money to descendants of Japanese internees. Moreover, through the U.S. government’s culpability in institutionally supporting slavery and segregation, there are no individual Americans who can preempt black reparations by claiming “it wasn?...
What followed was the great War of the Studios. In 1998, DreamWorks attempted to preempt Disney’s release of the computer-generated A Bug’s Life by turning out their own insect story, Antz, a few months earlier. Disney won the Battle of the Bug, but in 1999 DreamWorks was back with the very Disney-esque animated musical epic The Prince of Egypt. This effort was more successful than Antz, but only by about $10 million; it grossed $101 million (compared with $300+ million for The Lion King...