"If we launch a pre-emptive strike, we will lose all moral authority, " he told the crowd.
He argued that pre-emptive bubble-pricking rested on three assumptions, none of them likely to be met.
One official hinted at a pre-emptive strike if America reinforced its forces in the region.
"This is a pre-emptive move, " says Matt Rosoff, an analyst with research firm Directions on Microsoft.
"It is a pre-emptive move, " said Abheek Barua, an economist at ABM Amro in Mumbai.
Israel has hinted in recent months that it may carry out a pre-emptive strike.
They have also obtained a pre-emptive denial from Mr Bush's former sister-in-law, Sharon Bush.
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Asked if that meant pre-emptive action in a neighboring country, Howard replied, Oh yes.
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The airport said there would be no pre-emptive cancellations on Tuesday, unlike the last few days.
That may allow pre-emptive treatment to be developed for people whose tumours are not yet malignant.
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But Netanyahu told CNN he has not said Israel should consider a pre-emptive strike.
We would like them to play a bigger part, particularly engaging in some pre-emptive targeting.
And in Belgium, some politicians have called for pre-emptive action to stop young Belgian Muslims from travelling.
The North also claimed it had a right to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against its enemies.
North Korea has already said that it reserves the right to a pre-emptive nuclear strike against aggressors.
And he called the IRA statement a "publicity stunt" and an attempt to make a pre-emptive strike.
If bad things are happening to plants, he surmises, that is a reason for pre-emptive animal action.
To that end, pre-emptive intelligence, often acquired by unconventional means, is the feedstock of sensible anticipatory action.
He said that the MPC had been right in its series of "pre-emptive" rate rises this autumn.
Already, taxi drivers have gone on strike in Paris and elsewhere as a pre-emptive move against deregulation.
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This is an out-of-the-blue kind of pre-emptive legislation dealing with a problem that doesn't even seem to exist.
Israel, for instance, might take matters into its own hands, with a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.
And even companies that have never been accused of discrimination are introducing equality training as a pre-emptive move.
The possibility of an Israeli pre-emptive strike is a further source of instability in an already volatile region.
Does not the case for a pre-emptive strike on Iraq, which you support, suffer from the same weakness?
Instead, all 10 were sent off to Moscow in a pre-emptive "spy swap" before they could even get debriefed.
But North Korea did possibly make one major misstep in arguing that it might undertake a pre-emptive nuclear strike.
Bush made a strong argument that pre-emptive war was essential to preventing terrorism.
But if Mr Weidmann is minded to take pre-emptive action, he will soon have the means to do so.
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The debt standstill suggests Dubai had run out of options for a pre-emptive comprehensive bail-out from the well-resourced region.
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