Sentence examples for preliminary to a from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it was a preliminary to a sex-change operation.

It was preliminary to a job, for payment".

But in 1949 it was shut down on orders from Stalin, as the preliminary to a savage purge of the city and its officials.

The decisions reached were neither binding nor dramatic, and the whole event was pitched as preliminary to a broader meeting to be held in three months' time.

By Sterling Patterson The New Yorker, May 22 , 1926 P. 28Story describes people and atmosphere preliminary to a fight, the fight itself- the impressions of an observer View Article.

A Bay Area World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics would be a tame preliminary to a turf battle between the owners of the two teams.

Indeed, in his early life, particularly, it was only his indomitable will that enabled him to survive a strange preliminary to an unprecedented and unequaled life's work.

"Planned" or "scheduled" emergency visits are those preliminary to an elective hospital admission.

He said the findings of the internal memo were too preliminary to warrant a publication.

Our data is too preliminary to suggest a biophysical mechanism for the charge movement in GPCRs.

His disquisition was a preliminary to the announcement of an open competition for aspiring composers.