Sentence examples for preliminary reckoning from inspiring English sources

And, sure enough, with the election results, the shadows are returning.Last month, a preliminary reckoning by the provisional electoral council gave 15 of the 19 Senate seats being contested to Lavalas Family, the party of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the predecessor and mentor of René Préval, the current president.

And while the warmer Gulf waters are unlikely to take quite so long to settle, even a preliminary reckoning will have to wait until the first wintering birds have returned, shrimping boats have cast their nets again right across their grounds, and the wetland grasses have had a first chance to shed their oily carapaces and sprout anew in a fresh Spring.

Optimists, in contrast, reckon preliminary evidence suggests that hiring may be about to take off.

Now they are out of the reckoning, leaving Warrington as the most obviously dangerous team among this week's four preliminary semi-finalists.

"I would have been nearly 50, so I reckon that makes me the oldest," he says of his appearance in the preliminary round against Bootle in 1999.

That greed, it reckoned, costs taxpayers nearly C$1 billion ($800m) a year.Then on November 28th the European Commission unveiled the preliminary results of its year-long probe into pharmaceutical giants in the European Union.

As the cyclic behaviour of polymeric material is reckoned to be highly nonlinear, even at room temperature, an accurate constitutive model is a preliminary step for confident fatigue design.

As the cyclic behavior of polymeric material is reckoned to be highly nonlinear, even at room temperature, an accurate constitutive model is a preliminary step for confident fatigue design.

The reckoning?

The reckoning always comes.

Why preliminary?