According to one well-known theory, in the first phase, preparation, the thinker assembles and explores resources, perhaps making preliminary decisions about their value in solving the problem at hand.
And yet, to those students who applied to these and other universities this year, perhaps these preliminary statistics begin to provide a bit of a rough sense of the relative dimensions of the pools in which you've chosen to dive — if not necessarily definitive reasons why one particular college got hot, and another cooled down.
Perhaps a preliminary answer can be found in music rather than in literature -- for example, in the great compositions of Aaron Copland during his populist period.
Although this was certainly the cutting edge of the field, overall the presentations were perhaps more preliminary in the analysis stages, with many of the talks focusing on a discussion of methodological issues.
Perhaps a preliminary assumption might be that this is unlikely to be favorable, given that the EORTC 18991 study did not show an OS benefit with treatment, and the health-related quality of life impact associated with treatment was clearly detrimental.
There have been unconfirmed reports of defections overseas by some of Mr Chang's associates and the recalling to Pyongyang of Mr Chang's family members, perhaps as a preliminary to further disciplinary measures.
The number and accuracy of penetrations required would most likely be improved upon with experience, perhaps supplemented by preliminary surface and/or single-fiber needle EMG recording (SFEMG), 1, 4, 58, 59 thus identifying the most likely locations of NMJs in the regions of interest.
Perhaps it was a preliminary to a sex-change operation.
The findings, while preliminary, suggest — perhaps unsurprisingly — that traders who let their emotions get the best of them tend to fare poorly in the markets.
The union's strategy is simply to gain extra leverage by filing suit, and perhaps by scoring some preliminary legal victories.
