Sentence examples for preliminary event from inspiring English sources

The World Games serve as a preliminary event for the Olympics.

He was racing in a preliminary event when his car struck another and flipped over.

A preliminary event was a three-speaker symposium in Washington's Museum of History and Technology on "The American-This New Man".

At a preliminary event at the M.I.T. Media Lab last spring, research assistant Tal Achituv quieted a breast-pump motor by filling its interior space with a block of foam.

At a preliminary event tonight, he joined former President George Bush, Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf and Lady Thatcher of Britain in unveiling a plaque honoring all those in the coalition forces who lost their lives.

To get into the Bud Shootout, the 25-lap, made-for-television race for last year's pole winners, Jarrett had to win a 25-lap preliminary event for last year's second-round qualifying leaders.

(Harvard won, 14-6), & the remaining 537 were distributed among 17 preliminary events: 16 games on Fri.

After a variety of preliminary events, the venerable festival gets down to serious business this weekend with three concerts by the resident Boston Symphony Orchestra in the Koussevitzky Music Shed.

DESPITE selling out the Olympics in a city of over 15m people, China has found itself unable to fill seats for many of the games' preliminary events.

There was also the America's Cup World Series, preliminary events contested over the past two years in one-design, 45-foot versions of the full-blown Cup yachts.

After a variety of preliminary events, the venerable festival gets down to serious business this weekend with two concerts by the resident Boston Symphony Orchestra in the Koussevitzky Music Shed.