If anything, a pre-emptive move has more appeal than more waiting.

In a sense, what Cranston has done is to make a pre-emptive move here.

But parents of high-school students can make a few pre-emptive moves.

Britain's central bank raised a key short-term money rate today, for the first time in more than a year, in a pre-emptive move against inflationary pressure.

He is willing to make a pre-emptive move, and we are still reeling from that pronouncement.

Embracing the themes was in part a pre-emptive move, she said, because of the expected hate mail and anger directed at protesters.

Two Russian diplomats left hurriedly in recent days, apparently as a pre-emptive move to avoid expulsion.

"It's a pre-emptive move to force Bush's hand," one diplomat said.

East cannot have begun with seven or more diamonds, for he would have made a pre-emptive move over the opening one club.

Making the 36-year-old Payton the offensive coordinator is also a pre-emptive move by the Giants.