The case has at its focus the issue of federal preemption.

Preemption didn't just appear one day as a good idea.

But in practice, preemption has never made much sense as a strategic national policy.

The key is that in our foreign policy today, this administration has used the military option preemption.

"To say that we've never had a preemption policy would be foolish."

The problem is: These policies of preemption license a war.

This is an affirmation of the case law on preemption.

California has state preemption for many, but not all, firearms laws.

It requires federal preemption of state law on a much larger scale than ever before.

The court briefly set out the legal framework for preemption.

I'm sure there are other tools around that could do this kind of preemption, and it's looking like such things might become more popular.

It is subject to preemption in regional areas for paid and religious programming.

Care must be taken not to inhibit preemption during this search.

It's a novel theory, but it doesn't square with preemption.

California's courts generated two more cases addressing the preemption issue.

The big banks in particular are trying to get more preemption," said Frank at the time.

California's decision to exercise that authority does not, in itself, constitute a basis for preemption.

A state has passed full preemption of all firearms laws, with few exceptions.

As before, focusing on this legislation ignores the preemption issue.

Traffic preemption devices are implemented in a variety of ways.

There is an element of preemption here and must be clearly intended to create waves.

We only want to remind people that Centrica has a preemption right.

No preemption: a resource can be released only voluntarily by the process holding it.

Some systems use an acoustic sensor linked to the preemption system.

Federal preemption is a doctrine about structure, not rights.

The idea of nuclear pre-emption did not begin with the Iraq war.

The problem with pre-emption is keeping the president's war power under democratic control.

Now whether pre-emption is ultimately what has to happen or not I don't know yet.

The Administration proposal did not address the question of state pre-emption.

Q. I wanted to ask you about the policy of pre-emption.

Importantly, the administration has talked about pre-emption in a very public way.

Washington would either have to block Israeli pre-emption or be seen as part of it.

Another fear is that others would follow our example and take up pre-emption as a way of dealing with their problems.

"We never felt there was enough to sustain a pre-emption."

Where is the definition of when pre-emption might actually be justified?

Finally, there is conflict pre-emption in either of two senses.

Pre-emption has always been available as a tool of foreign policy or military doctrine.

Perhaps that period has never happened for you, because of your pre-emption, so nothing is lost."

This suggests that he might well be uneasy with the idea of pre-emption.

The State will also have a kind of right of pre-emption.

The Articles will include rights of pre-emption upon transfer which are appropriate to a private company.

In other words, is it the fact of the pre-emption that matters, or the frequency?

Federal rules allow for such pre-emption, although officials say it is extremely unlikely.

"We do not have a declared policy of pre-emption," a senior administration official said on Friday.

The long history of Federal pre-emption in, for example, labor law, adds another precedent.

Rightly we are resisting the pre-emption of that decision today.

"The issue of pre-emption was thoroughly discussed during the debate on this bill," he said.

The other night, both men attacked the Bush administration's doctrine of "pre-emption."

The doctrine of pre-emption represented a major departure in American foreign policy.

Federal pre-emption may also expand into the area of state regulatory powers.

If the owner wishes to sell the island then the Department has a pre-emptive right.

"We are not speaking about a sale of assets where pre-emptive rights would apply," he said.

In Britain, current shareholders have a pre-emptive right to purchase any new shares offered for sale, with the rest sold on the market.

But during the final interview process, Speyer agreed to pay a significant premium in exchange for pre-emptive rights to the land.

The system of pre-emptive rights partly reflects the great power of the major British investment institutions in their home market.

Shareholders do not have a pre-emptive right to purchase shares sold by other shareholders of the company.

That's W.'s philosophy, too - a pre-emptive right to secretly do everything from war to torture to snooping.

This introduced a system whereby existing shareholders had, in some circumstances, to be afforded pre-emptive rights on an issue of further shares.

However, despite section 89, the statutory pre-emptive rights are far from being entrenched; in certain circumstances they can be modified or waived.

In this context, the pre-emptive right is also called subscription right or subscription privilege.

"In accordance with our legislation, pre-emptive rights belong to us," Mr. Shkolnik said.

This exchange caused brothers to have pre-emptive rights over their sisters as they acted as their personal passage into marriage.

The term Arthurs Seat was first applied to the mountain, then to a squatting run, next to the pre-emptive right and recently to a suburb.

The elective resolution procedure does not apply to the pre-emptive rights since a special resolution procedure is available to change the articles.

A rights issue in which the existing shareholders may exercise their pre-emptive rights to subscribe to the new shares in proportion to those already held.

The 640 acre pre-emptive right, reduced to 600 acres because of land required for Government roads,became known as Tuerong Park.

Mr. Arnault has an agreement with the Moet family that gives him pre-emptive rights if members seek to sell their holdings.

Existing shareholders have pre-emptive rights (Companies Act 1980 S17) to buy new shares in proportion to their existing holdings.

Under Kazakh law, the state oil company, KazMunaiGaz, has a pre-emptive right to buy oil fields.

The transactions are subject to the approval of the Department of Trade and Industry and pre-emptive rights of certain partners.

The Treaty of Waitangi, in the second article, gave the Crown the pre-emptive right for all land purchases from Māori.

"They absolutely do not have any sort of pre-emptive right," said Erwin Hayden, a spokesman for E.ON.

In contrast with the relative simplicity of sections 80 and 80A, the provisions relating to pre-emptive rights (now sections 89 to 96) are complicated and confusing.

They purchased the pre-emptive right of 640 acres, which extended from the McCrae coast to the park boundary at the south end of Cook St.

In addition to a share of profits, the arrangement will give Suntory pre-emptive rights in bidding to take any of the Shubert productions to Japan.