In a preamble to their statement of purpose, the committees said they would look thoroughly into the mistakes and lapses before Sept. 11 and far beyond -- in memory of the victims of the attacks.
In the preamble to the Consensus Statement, the panel recognizes biomonitoring as an important public issue that "hits close to home" for many of them.
Several hoped that my statement in the preamble that "once you uncover the right framing, the solution drops out easily" implied an even simpler solution than this but I'm afraid that this is as simple as it gets.
In the end, the treaty is likely to include a statement in the preamble noting the relationship between offensive and defensive arms, a way of assuaging Russian concerns without agreeing to binding limits, officials said.
Another option was considered in 2013: to follow Russia, France and others and formally recognise the Armenian massacres as genocide – given the May 1915 statement and the preamble to the 1948 UN convention on genocide.
The first statement in the preamble to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights refers to "recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family".
Cosmetic tinkering with the preamble is insufficient," Shorten said in a statement.
Mr. Bush's assurances could be part of a letter, or a preamble to a letter, or simply a statement from the president, an administration official said.
Regardless, the iPhone bit was a preamble to what passes for a policy statement: If elected president, she said she'd abolish the current tax code and replace it with a "pro-growth" code.
To read: In New York, Jonathan Chait opines on the state of the Republican Party: "America is approaching a 'tipping point' beyond which the Nation will be unable to change course," announces the dark, old-timey preamble to Paul Ryan's "The Roadmap Plan," a statement of fiscal principles that shaped the budget outline approved last spring by 98 percent of the House Republican caucus.
