Sentence examples for Preliminary stage from inspiring English sources

Preliminary stage.

Talks are at the preliminary stage.

Very few, however, get beyond the preliminary stage.

Relief officials said those plans were at the preliminary stage.

The legislative process still is at a preliminary stage.

The hearings never got past the preliminary stage.

But at this preliminary stage in the investigation, proceedings are customarily not public.

It allowed publishers at the preliminary stage of proceedings to avoid revealing sources.

"HBOS is very much at the preliminary stage," a company spokesman, Shane O'Riordain, said.

An inquiry can be a preliminary stage of a criminal investigation.

Stan Rosenfield, a spokesman for Mr. Gandolfini, said discussions did not evolve beyond a preliminary stage.