Sentence examples for Preliminary thoughts from inspiring English sources

These are a few preliminary thoughts, not in order.

But Collins has already made his preliminary thoughts clear.

Yet even despite that spending, Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham said recently that the department is "just beginning to formulate its preliminary thoughts about a transportation plan".

In the opening scene, Caesar's preliminary thoughts of a rapprochement with Pompey are abruptly superseded by the delivery of Pompey's severed head.

Explain that you will return to these questions later, but ask for their preliminary thoughts about now, and note their answers on the board.

"We've had some very preliminary thoughts on whether or not we could align with a children's charity rather than just having another BBL game in a season of 30 or 40 games.

I'm only just beginning to go through them, but I have a preliminary thought.

Before taking up a novel like Scarlett Thomas's "Our Tragic Universe," with its playful and portentous fixations on riddles, paradoxes and Zen koans, it may be helpful to engage in a few preliminary thought experiments.

As a preliminary thought experiment to gauge the potential relevance of these efforts to the struggle against terrorism in Arab lands, it occurred to us to accost a leading practitioner in the science of countering gangs.

In his autobiography, Zinsser speaks of Nicolle's qualities as a scientist: Nicolle was one of those men who achieve their success by long preliminary thought, before an experiment is formulated, rather than by the frantic and often ill-conceived experimental activities that keep lesser men in ant-like agitation... Nicolle did relatively few and simple experiments.

Desk approach is core to the first phase and focuses on providing a preliminary well-thought list of city-specific candidate policies representing the starting point for further stakeholders' evaluation (Fig. 2).