Sentence examples for beginning exploratory from inspiring English sources

India's prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, said he was extending a cease-fire and beginning "exploratory steps" to rejuvenate peace talks with Pakistan.

Around two thousand campaigners marched in protest against fracking in the village of Balcombe in West Sussex, where Cuadrilla is beginning exploratory drilling.

India's prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, told Parliament early in the afternoon that he was extending a unilateral cease-fire in Kashmir by another month and beginning "exploratory steps" to rejuvenate peace talks with Pakistan.

The only company to actively pursue offshore drilling in the Arctic in recent years is Royal Dutch Shell, which invested more than $7 billion and endured a string of legal and logistical setbacks before finally beginning exploratory drilling in the summer of 2015 in the Chukchi Sea.

It says it "expects to begin exploratory drilling operations before August 2018".

It took Frank Calvert, a scholarly amateur archaeologist, until 1860 to begin exploratory work on Hisarlık.

BP hopes to begin exploratory drilling as early as the end of 2016.

It hopes to begin exploratory drilling there as early as July.

For weeks, members of the tribe have occupied land just outside their reservation on which Occidental de Colombia, an affiliate of Occidental Petroleum, wants to begin exploratory drilling.

On Thursday, Novartis took a fateful step in its unusually public courtship of Aventis, saying it had begun exploratory merger talks.

Shell has planned to begin exploratory drilling this summer using a ship-based drill that could begin making its way from the Philippines this month.