Sentence examples for a sort of preliminary from inspiring English sources

In this way, the floor log serves as a sort of preliminary screener of patients that may be included or excluded from solicitation into the proposed study.

I've got one particular colleague on this trial, who shall remain nameless, who is very strong on the quantitative side, who grudgingly has come to accept that qualitative research might have some role as a sort of preliminary to other things, but I can't really shift his main thinking, which is that science is really about hypotheses and testing hypotheses rigorously.

A: Sort of.

These methods would be preferable in situations in which any sort of preliminary evaluation is not possible to be done.

Environmentalists tout a sort-of pagan eschatology.

He's a sort-of broken Tony Soprano.

But, he cautioned, "It's still sort of preliminary".

"This is just sort of preliminary research," said Norman Pearlstine, editor in chief of Time Inc., adding it was just one of "half a dozen" new magazine ideas being explored.

Democrats want the hearings, but they're pushing for an FBI investigation first, asserting the committee will be "shooting in the dark" without some sort of preliminary findings to go on.

Shaun White and Louie Vito each completed consecutive versions of the trick — a sort of corkscrewing double back flip — during preliminary heats of the first Olympic qualifying event for the United States Olympic team.

For the town officials, the issue now is whether the book might provide a sort of blueprint for blocking the plans of two other tribes that have won preliminary approval for their recognition petition, the Paucatuck Eastern Pequots and the Eastern Pequots.