Sentence examples for more preliminary than from inspiring English sources

The report also sounded a note of caution on a budget proposal that had generally been well received by outside monitors when the mayor unveiled it on Feb. 13. "While all preliminary budgets present a number of trial balloons, giving mayors the opportunity to float a variety of proposals, this budget appears more preliminary than most," the budget office's report warned.

Humans won't be getting gene therapy to make their neurons photosensitive, of course — his research is even more preliminary than Stanford's.

Officials said the saboteurs' discussions had been more preliminary planning than a firm plot.

However, less is known about NeurimmiRs in invertebrates who might own more preliminary NEI system than vertebrates.

This is the last of the Roman master's monumental endeavors and he thought long and hard about it, making more preliminary studies for it than for any other sculpture.

Belleroche told his son that he had sat for Sargent in between Madame Gautreau's sittings and that Sargent had made more preliminary sketches of him and Gautreau than he did of any other sitters.

And because the statute is broadly worded as to what constitutes a partnership, Mr. Schulze really can't have more than preliminary talks with partners or he risks activating the statute.

The story of "Trouble Every Day," by Ms. Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau, is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film, and the movie's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the story together frustratingly difficult.

The proposed contents of the model are no more than preliminary.

Taken as a whole the investigations that have so far been done with A. blazei do not allow much more than preliminary conclusions about the possibilities of the mushroom as a general protective or therapeutic agent [ 6].

FRANKFURT — In what passes for good news in Europe these days, a survey Monday showed that manufacturing in the euro zone was deteriorating more gradually than preliminary estimates had indicated.