Erik Larson

What drove me to do 'Dead Wake' was that after doing the most preliminary of reading and scoping out what kinds of materials might be available in archives and so forth, I realized that this book - the research, the writing - would present me with a rare opportunity to explore to a full extent the potential for suspense in a nonfiction work.

American Author

Laura Wasser

There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce - or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my colleagues - not all - I offer that preliminary consultation for free.

American Lawyer

John Polkinghorne

The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.

British Physicist

James Lasdun

Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.

British Writer

Rachel McAdams

I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes, and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute.

Canadian Actress

Haniel Long

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

Albert Bushnell Hart

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

American Historian

John Maynard Keynes

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

English Economist

Muhammad Iqbal

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

Pakistani Poet

Krystal Ball

A preliminary agreement in principle is not a deal.

American Activist

The word 'preliminary' is used across various fields such as law, science, and business.

Wide Use

'Preliminary' implies that something is not final or complete, more actions will follow.

Not Final

Using 'preliminary' often means outcomes are subject to change as more information arises.

Conveys Incompleteness

In sports, 'preliminary' often involves qualifying rounds before main events.

Sports Context

Preliminary rounds test competitors' skills to qualify for the main competition.

Initial Challenge

'Preliminary' as a noun focuses on tasks to set up or prepare before the main activity.

Before Main Event

When used as a noun, it refers to early stages of planning or organizing.

Planning Phase

Preliminaries help to reduce uncertainty about the main event or outcome.

Stemming Uncertainty

 to put their mind in a state where there's nothing but loving kindness, total availability to sentient being. Of course, during the training, we do that with objects. We think of people suffering, of people we love, but at some point, it can be a state which is all pervading. Here is the preliminary result,

The habits of happiness...

 elevating your head, and avoiding sleeping on your back may also help. For people who have a milder condition, mouth and throat exercises have been shown to alleviate obstructive sleep apnea in some preliminary trials. But these approaches, and devices like oral appliances,

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 and allow yourself to make mistakes and adjustments. This prototype lets you see how your preliminary sketches will come to life. You will want to first draw all individual parts on a single sheet, including all your main pieces, all the supporting pieces and the folds.

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 keep walking, and then keep walking a little bit different afterwards. And it's a very preliminary prototype, but they also built a more robust version with power on board that can actually be sent out in the world and face real-world interactions

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 He ran his trial. And after the trial had been running for a little while, he gathered together all his colleagues around his table, and he said, "Well, gentlemen, we have some preliminary results. They're not statistically significant.

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 you see a heart rapport shamaa bats that that have been exposed to this virus preliminary results indicate that vampire bats from agricultural areas may actually have a higher rate of infection than new bats from other parts of the

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 on how to move those suspect funds. These were all preliminary meetings, and none of the lawyers took us on as a client and of course no money moved hands, but it really shows the problem with the system. It's also important

The Panama Papers...

 Thank you, sock model. So this is a drawing of my preliminary design. My desire to create a sensor-based technology perhaps stemmed from my lifelong love for sensors and technology. When I was six years old,

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 pretty remarkable preliminary results and what's equally exciting is this growing number of compassionate prison staff members willing to give this simple tactic ago to lower inmate violence

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 a preliminary chase serves to get the measure of the quarry and to isolate an individual if one seems weaker than the rest it will become the target