Sentence examples similar to preliminary to advancing from inspiring English sources

One obstacle to progress is confusion about defining psychopathy; a necessary preliminary step to advancing intervention.

We restrict our examples to the species found in human houses – a subset of the environments constituting the indoor biome – and offer preliminary hypotheses to advance the study of indoor evolution.

But recently, some preliminary steps have been taken to advance Goal 16 principles within the UN, for instance, by making the current Secretary-General selection process more transparent and participatory.

The evening progresses with winners of preliminary races advancing to feature events.

In the last cup, New York's two-boat Young America squad failed to advance past the preliminary challenger trials.

After the experience of London, in which the volleyball team failed to advance from the preliminary stages, Wiggs wanted a new sporting challenge.

Hand-waving speculation is susceptible to being affected by preliminary biases and thus does nothing to advance this important and developing field.

Jonathan Williams, Belize's flag bearer in Beijing, was the first Belizean Olympian to advance past a preliminary round.

Competing at the season-ending WTA Tour Championships, played in Madrid, for the second time Kuznetsova again failed to advance past the preliminary round-robin stage, winning just one of her three matches.

The Bite won the preliminary final series against the Blue Sox two games to one, to advance to the championship series.

The declaration comes at a time of intense speculation in Washington that preliminary plans are advancing to take military action against Iran's nuclear sites if diplomacy fails, an idea Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld dismissed Tuesday as "fantasy land".