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Still it managed to do okay with its premiere, but then its numbers started to slide and the network started pre-empting it.
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Being in the present moment means that you are genuinely listening to students and their questions without being side tracked, without pre-empting.
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"He intends to run for mayor," one person close to Emanuel told The Associated Press, requesting anonymity to avoid pre-empting the announcement.
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Still it managed to do okay with its premiere, but then its numbers started to slide and the network started pre-empting it.
13 « May « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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They cut back the episode order before it even aired then pushed it to the Tuesday 10 PM EST deathslot, then started pre-empting it after it debuted.
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"He intends to run for mayor," one person close to Emanuel told The Associated Press, requesting anonymity to avoid pre-empting the announcement.
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And despite his making the rare concession of submitting a documentary script for approval, Madsen nets full candor from the project's participants -- a rock blaster, a theologian, and several scientists -- all of whose signatures Madsen includes on screen, literally underlining that they are co-signatories to a future they are shaping pre-empting? but will never see.
Michael Vazquez: Weekend Film: On Into Eternity Michael Vazquez 2011
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And despite his making the rare concession of submitting a documentary script for approval, Madsen nets full candor from the project's participants -- a rock blaster, a theologian, and several scientists -- all of whose signatures Madsen includes on screen, literally underlining that they are co-signatories to a future they are shaping pre-empting? but will never see.
Michael Vazquez: Weekend Film: On Into Eternity Michael Vazquez 2011
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"He intends to run for mayor," one person close to Emanuel told The Associated Press, requesting anonymity to avoid pre-empting the announcement.
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They cut back the episode order before it even aired then pushed it to the Tuesday 10 PM EST deathslot, then started pre-empting it after it debuted.
11 « June « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
bilby commented on the word empting
Citation on Princess Helen Keita.
July 17, 2008