Parliament's lower house took a preliminary step to remove from election ballots the option of voting "against all" candidates.
Interrogations led commanders to believe the incident was a preliminary step to a planned general insurrection in the region.
Meanwhile, one of the 12 men arrested in the raids was released by police but handed over to the UK Border Agency as a probable preliminary step to deportation.
Nonetheless, Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who announced today that he was taking a preliminary step to run for president, called for Mr. Kissinger to sever all ties to his clients for the time being.
The AT&T Corporation asked AOL Time Warner yesterday to revise the structure of their joint venture in Time Warner Entertainment as a preliminary step to creating a corporation.
Generally, the teachers are against this approach, as well as being against the proposed changes for their working week, which is viewed as a preliminary step to making the school day longer in the future.
Three large generators have formed a creditor committee that some analysts say is a preliminary step to forcing Edison International, the parent of Southern California Edison, and the PG&E Corporation, the parent of Pacific Gas and Electric, into bankruptcy.
Once regarded as scientific toys, such studies are now considered an essential preliminary step to any large-scale redevelopment of a port or coastal area and are useful even for minor modifications or additions.
Mr Madani, who in July was released on parole from six years' imprisonment, wrote to Mr Annan that he was "ready to call for an immediate halt to bloodshed" as a preliminary step to serious dialogue.
Mr Obama's order is seen as a preliminary step to set energy goals ahead of a crucial meeting is Paris this December in which world leaders will come together to finalize a treaty combating climate change.
A preliminary step to achieving sustainability was to unify it in the agricultural production context.
