With the final checks complete, the anticipation is palpable in the air as the final preparatory command is uttered down the line: "standby".
In the most common command "Forward, march", "Forward" is the preparatory command, to tell you that the executory command is coming, and "March" is the executory command.
The march leader will call "HALT" on either the left or the right foot, so as soon as you hear the preparatory command, get ready so you don't slam into the person in front of you.
Wait for the preparatory and executory commands to begin marching.
He attended a series of preparatory schools, graduated from Yale and commanded an antisubmarine vessel during World War II.
The so-called "cold situation" (commanding firefighter, control and dispatch center) involves non-personnel preparatory measures concerning vehicles and equipment (for example, submersible pumps or chainsaws) and personnel preparatory measures like calling in additional dispatchers to the command center, reallocating staff within the jurisdiction, or activating special units like wild fire units.
Therefore, the investigation team construed its objective and subjective elements in light of criminal justice notions (i) punishable preparatory acts; (ii) 'ordering' as mode of individual criminal liability; (iii) effective control and command responsibility; and (iv) indirect perpetration as an organized structure of power.
He had his work cut out for him: when he took office there wasn't just an absent system of command, but there had been no planning whatsoever by the previous administrations for war; no preparatory memos or regular briefings by the top brass awaited him.
See also preparatory school.
Headteacher, Ursuline Preparatory school, Essex.
There were no preparatory drawings.
