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preliminary English
Meaning preliminary meaning
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Simple sentences
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for October 20th.
Movie subtitles
I take it the space gun's passed all its preliminary trials. and there's nothing left now but to choose the two who are to go.
Your Honor, we waive preliminary examinations since we intend to plead guilty to both charges.
Beaufort. No preliminary nonsense with him, no ceremonial phrasing.
Work out a preliminary scheme.
That's fine. I'll be right up and prescribe some preliminary treatment.
Here's a preliminary report, lieutenant.
Oh, balloons. The preliminary reports on the use of balloons for initial jumps are generally favourable.
Since you called my wife, Mrs. Balestrero I've made some preliminary inquiries.
I think it's customary to take a preliminary vote.
This is a preliminary meeting.
A preliminary.
Preliminary warning!
There was no preliminary alert.
But first of all, as a preliminary to this. - I shall occupy your time.
One licking don't make him a preliminary again.
You know, with a preliminary boy.
He's just a preliminary.
Matched against a preliminary boy.
Oh, what if we do miss the preliminary?
But let me warn you, don't make this a preliminary.
I'd like to have a preliminary look around.
I'll make some preliminary tests here. and then I'll go out to the antique shop and make a further examination.
No preliminary nonsense with him, no ceremonial phrasing.
Suppose I go ahead with preliminary plans and we get together in a week. - All right.
I'll be right in to prescribe preliminary treatment.
Well, I never include detail on my preliminary report.
The second preliminary on tomorrow night's card is a four-round bop between Slug McNut and Jerry Moore.
Oh, this is what is known as a preliminary flirtation.
Maybe, you know, conduct a small preliminary examination to sort of weed out the culls, as it were, huh?
You stated in preliminary proceedings that you'd known the victim for many years.
You denied that in preliminary proceedings.
Yes, I know, but my preliminary examination didn't reveal your true condition.
A preliminary sketching, and nothing more.
Mr. Elster, suspecting that all was not well with his wife's mental state, took the preliminary precaution of having her watched by Mr. Ferguson, lest any harm befall her.
During the preliminary investigation, I'll deny it.
News and current affairs
This episode offers a few preliminary lessons on debt buybacks.
While it is important to note that this figure is only an estimate, it represents a preliminary but credible indicator of climate finance, based on information provided by developed countries.
This is probably because most of those inconvenienced by preliminary counter-terrorism measures in the US are Arab-Americans, while the broader American community has not been bothered.
PALO ALTO - It is still too soon to gauge the full economic impact of President Barack Obama's implemented and proposed policies, but a preliminary read indicates limited short-term benefit at large long-term cost.
These results, although preliminary, suggest an alternative treatment if validated in larger-scale studies.
Preliminary statistics suggest that this figure has now fallen by half.
But it is not too early to draw other preliminary conclusions.
The recent international conference in London, aimed at supporting reforms in the Palestinian Authority and shoring up support for renewed negotiations with Israel, is one of those preliminary efforts.
The recent G-20 summit occurred with virtually no real preliminary work.
A cynical observer remarked at the preliminary hearing that by the looks of it the Russian authorities couldn't make up their mind: either the former Yukos bosses didn't pay taxes or they embezzled money.
Many of the results of human studies are highly preliminary and do not actually identify a gene.
The confused situation faced by the Caroline Institute in 1950 reminds us that all prize committees face difficult choices: after four indecisive rounds of preliminary voting, three primary alternatives emerged, but the out-come was still uncertain.
Setting aside the issue of nanomaterials' toxicity, preliminary results suggest that fabricating nanomaterials entails risks that are less than or comparable to those associated with many current industrial activities.
CAMBRIDGE - I was in Beijing last month when the Chinese government released a preliminary summary of its 13th Five-Year Plan.
This is one of several important messages to emerge from a United Nations Experts Commission on the global economic crisis, which I chair - and which recently submitted its preliminary report to the UN.
Studies that show an association between a factor and a health effect should be regarded as no more than a preliminary result that points researchers toward further research and analysis.
But the preliminary report also included some criticism that irked the Bolivian administration.
In their admirable march to civil liberty, the Arab peoples must face a preliminary test of any democracy, however incipient: assuming responsibility for the consequences of one's decisions.
China's active courtship of countries that violate human rights on a massive scale, such as Sudan, North Korea, and Burma, similarly represents a preliminary decapitation of the international human rights regime.
In the meantime, Article 136 of the existing Treaty on the Functioning of the EU would allow for some preliminary steps, such as the designation of votes at the European Council that are reserved for eurozone countries only.
CAMBRIDGE: Debates about the New Economy have raged for years, yet preliminary conclusions are now possible.