Sentence examples similar to preparatory to calling from inspiring English sources

But the progress towards peace at Paris was infinitely greater than I expected when I suggested that the Council should meet in Paris preparatory to the prompt calling of a peace conference.

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.

Eighteen of these investigators viewed their work as preparatory to clinical studies proper – what we called "developing tools for clinical translation".

Archives|FRANCE TO PROPOSE LEAGUE ARMS STUDY; Wants Inquiry by Experts Preparatory to Drastic Limitation Program.

Both symposia and gymnasia in different ways mirrored or were preparatory to warfare (see below).

FRANCE TO PROPOSE LEAGUE ARMS STUDY; Wants Inquiry by Experts Preparatory to Drastic Limitation Program.

I was talking to the sentries preparatory to changing the guard.

This was not just to find the play's bones, preparatory to rearranging them.

It is probably preparatory to offering women other drugs to keep us "happy".

Central tore down several years ago, preparatory to moving its tracks off West Street.

And there was no point in delivering a novel preparatory to something else.