Inspections are a preliminary step in an antitrust investigation.
It is a preliminary step in the investigative process, he said, and does not imply innocence or guilt.
Bettman called it a preliminary step in a possible purchase of the Sabres from their current principal owner, Thomas Golisano.
This is a stage in the legal process that is not equivalent to being charged in British or Irish law but is a preliminary step in that direction.
The Ottoman sultan Selim I (the Grim) responded by attacking the reinforced Mamlūk army in Syria, probably as a preliminary step in a new campaign against the Ṣafavids.
"It is a preliminary step in a drive to unionise the employees of multinationals," says Lesli Ligorner, a lawyer in China with Paul Hastings, an international law firm.
Some antibiotics, such as the sulfonamides, are competitive inhibitors of the synthesis of folic acid (folate), which is an essential preliminary step in the synthesis of nucleic acids.
Classification is basic to all science as a preliminary step in reducing data to manageable proportions and in moving toward a systematic understanding of a subject matter.
Either way, the CPS is a very solid starting point, and we can still take a preliminary step in answering whether or not Obama would have won without the Millennials.
IN 1942, Gordon Hirabayashi was imprisoned for violating a military curfew that applied only to Japanese-Americans, a preliminary step in the government's forcible relocation of "all persons of Japanese ancestry" from the West Coast to remote detention camps.
That is because the caucuses are less definitive than many of the state contests that follow: they represent only a preliminary step in Iowa's delegate-selection process, and only about 10percentt of registered voters participate.
