Sentence examples for of exploratory discussions from inspiring English sources

Following several years of exploratory discussions, it took a similar formal declaration of intent in 1991 to launch the Human Genome Project.

Page A14 CLOSE OF MIDEAST MEETINGS The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said that a round of exploratory discussions with Israel under Jordanian auspices had ended.

Since news of the exploratory discussions surfaced, the talk of Detroit has centered on how tough a merger would be on an already-beleaguered economy.

The aim of these exploratory discussions was to gather information and systematize structures without formulating restrictive hypotheses in advance.

Outside the United States, Deutsche Telekom has also held exploratory discussions with Telefonica of Spain and Cable and Wireless of Britain.

Then one heard tales of the Kirov's stumbling efforts to stage the "Ring": productions by German directors of "Das Rheingold" and "Die Walküre" scrapped and exploratory discussions with still other stage directors.

It's a lot of moving pieces". Ward admitted there has been exploratory discussions over a rematch with Froch since he beat Edwin Rodriguez on points in a non-title super-middleweight fight earlier this month.

About four years ago, the laboratory held exploratory discussions with Consolidated Edison and Brooklyn Union Gas, now a part of KeySpan Energy, about what technological innovations they needed.

"Our firms are in exploratory discussions about a possible combination," James Rishwain, the chairman of the Pillsbury firm, and Mitch Zuklie, the chairman of Orrick, said in a joint statement on Friday.

"As one of these options, Deutsche Telekom AG and Orange SA are having highly preliminary exploratory discussions with British Telecom,  although it is too early to state whether any transaction may occur.

Executives close to AT&T said this week that exploratory discussions were continuing with British Telecommunications about merging the business-services units of the two companies, though no deal was imminent.