"the preliminary proposal" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when describing a document or plan that is being presented as an initial proposal or idea, before any further revisions or details are added. Example: The company's marketing team presented the preliminary proposal for their new product launch to the executives.
The agencies released the preliminary proposal in December.
The site is in Community School District 26, which, under the preliminary proposal, would receive a 650-seat elementary school.
But the preliminary proposal would have to be substantially modified to gain industry support — and such changes would undoubtedly lead to charges that the government had backed down under pressure.
While the preliminary proposal has drawn interest from more than a dozen companies, some independent specialists who are familiar with drone operations expressed skepticism about the State Department's ability to manage such a complicated and potentially risky enterprise.
Although it is still in the early planning stages, the preliminary proposal is for a 100,000 square foot incubator facility that will house up to 70 new biotech companies, create over 2000 jobs, and attract more than $600 million in investment.
Securus, whose earnings grew from $87 million in 2013 to $114.6 million last year, said that the preliminary proposal could be a "business-ending event".
It is expected to review the preliminary proposals and narrow the list before asking for formal proposals.
Although the board went through its ritual series of failed motions for bigger and smaller increases, in the end the adopted resolutions closely followed the preliminary proposals the board issued last month.
Patricia Hewitt, the secretary of state for trade and industry, referred to the Competition Commission the preliminary proposals by the country's three largest supermarket chains -- in descending order, Tesco, J Sainsbury and Asda, a unit of Wal-Mart Stores.
"Today I can say to the international community that we are closer than ever to achieving that peace," Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said in remarks to the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, one day after the preliminary proposals' release.
The far-reaching preliminary proposal — and the resistance it encountered — appear to have put the agencies in a bind and created divisions among them, with some federal officials wanting to step back and take a more measured approach.
