The phrase "a preliminary framework" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an initial structure or plan that serves as a basis for further development or analysis.
Example: "The researchers presented a preliminary framework for understanding the impact of climate change on local ecosystems."
Alternatives: "an initial structure" or "a foundational outline".
In March, President Obama and the Mexican president, Felipe Calderón, agreed on a preliminary framework for compromise.
Nevertheless, psychoanalytic theory provides at least a preliminary framework for much of personality research involving motives and development.
Although a preliminary framework, the report offers a promising account of impact and value achieved by ten companies which have made steps toward product optimisation.
Since a preliminary framework accord was announced in Lausanne earlier this month, different interpretations have emerged on what exactly had been agreed, particularly when it came to the timing of sanctions relief.
When that became unrealistic, Kerry scaled back his goals and said he would aim for a preliminary "framework" agreement by April, with the goal of continuing negotiations through the end of the year to iron out the final details of a deal.
From a group of early innovators, the Institute and its partner Trucost, a global environmental data and insight company, selected 10 companies and their certified products to establish a preliminary framework for measuring the business, social, and environmental benefits of achieving cradle to cradle certification.
Although no new themes emerged during the last several interactions, we chose to not to collect additional data, in part, because the primary goal of this study – to provide a basic, preliminary framework into how residents approach decisions in the ICU – had been achieved.
Our preliminary framework provides a foundation for the development of a large, comprehensive collection of CAM outcomes.
The goal of this research concerns the implementation into Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of preliminary frameworks developed to evaluate human toxicity and exposure factors related to the potential nanoparticle releases that could occur during the life cycle steps of a functionalized building material.
Since the source of the preliminary framework was a single published model, the manner in which new themes built-on, developed and altered this preliminary conceptual framework is quite transparent.
As such, we propose this preliminary framework as a hypothesis for gastrophrynine diversification that future investigators will test with a more robust taxonomic and genomic sampling as well as alternative calibration schemes.
