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How to use the word Preliminary in a Sentence?

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The preliminary ruling by a federal judge in Texas is an assault on science and the FDA’s long-standing role as the authority to make decisions on the safety and efficacy of medicines. For a court to invalidate the approval of a drug that was reviewed and approved more than two decades ago is without precedent. As legal scholars have noted, the courts do not have the medical expertise to make these types of scientific determinations.

Rachel King

Found on CNN
11 months ago

We would typically – ideally – look at five years of data in order to see any sort of trend emerging. So, these are very preliminary findings, but this is something that we’re going to have to continue monitoring.

Parks Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our preliminary information at this point is that neither airplane had any kind of avoidance system radar that would have alerted them to the other aircraft.

Lynn Spencer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

All initial indications we have, and again this is preliminary, were that the Cherokee was self-announcing its location and its intention, and the Cub was not, this might indicate that the Cherokee was unaware of the Cub, and if the Cub could not hear what the Cherokee was announcing, they may have been unaware of the Cherokee.

Lynn Spencer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

According to a preliminary review, the pilot of a Learjet 60 took off without clearance while JetBlue Flight 206 was preparing to land on an intersecting runway, jetBlue 206, go around.

The FAA

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Five Memphis Police Department officers can state that preliminary findings indicate Tyre suffered extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating, and that Tyre Nichols observed injuries are consistent with what the family and attorneys witnessed on the video of his fatal encounter with police on January 7, 2023.

Ben Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Based on the preliminary findings of an investigation, it appears information was released to a third party by a junior individual who didn't follow proper procedures and obtain required consent. The Department of the Air Force takes its responsibility to safeguard private information seriously and the matter remains under investigation.

Air Force

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Department has received the court's order clarifying the preliminary injunction and despite disagreeing with The Department, intends to comply with The Department terms.

Jon Ebelt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is an ongoing active investigation and the information we have at this time is preliminary, but in an effort to be transparent with our community, we wanted to provide you with some details from this morning's incident and line of duty-death.

Police Chief Link Strate

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our criminal prosecutors conducted a preliminary review to determine what additional aspects of the incident required further investigation to do this case justice, by early summer, it became clear we would begin the work to convene a grand jury to seek criminal charges.

Pima County Attorney Laura Conover

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There was an apparently beneficial effect on immediate word recall in those with mild cognitive impairment, this preliminary but promising finding warrants more exploration of the use of bioelectronic approaches for disorders like Alzheimer's disease.

Rudy Tanzi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The affidavit that was filed in this case was egregious, and wrong, and had so many misstatements that carried it through to preliminary hearing where more lies and perjury were committed in order to get Mr. Morphew wrongfully convicted.

Iris Eytan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Our reading is that the Court's opinion interprets the one-man grand jury process to require charges to be filed at the district court and include a preliminary examination. Our team is prepared to move forward through that process.

Fadwa Hammoud

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We're thinking of this as a three-dose vaccine, and the preliminary data acquired during the Omicron era say it's actually 80 % effective, we will want to look at that very carefully, but so far, that's good news.

William Schaffner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But two of those were wildly different in composition. You had spikes in chromium and nickel and some other elements that are only common in meteoritic material and those fragments based on our preliminary analysis... are almost certainly of cosmic origin. this example of what might be a little tiny fragment, maybe micrograms, of the colliding asteroid -- the fact that a record of that is preserved, would be mind-blowing.

Robert DePalma

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Preliminary information provided to ASP is that as many as 10 people had been wounded by gunfire.

Bill Sadler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

According to preliminary data, more than a thousand people were hiding there, the probability of getting there to dismantle the rubble is low due to constant shelling and bombing of the city.

Petro Andruishchenko

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This application seeks relief from a preliminary injunction that usurps the Navy's authority to decide which servicemembers should be deployed to execute some of the military's most sensitive and dangerous missions.

Elizabeth Prelogar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Based on the trauma that was viewed, it appears that this may be a case of double homicide-suicide, but that is still going to be under investigation, but that is the preliminary information that we have.

Harris CountySheriff Ed Gonzaleztold

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The preliminary investigation has revealed an adult male ran into traffic and jumped on a moving vehicle, the driver of the vehicle shot the male subject and notified 911. The male subject was pronounced deceased on scene.

Fayetteville Police Department

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

RADx recently performed preliminary studies evaluating the performance of some antigen tests using patient samples containing live virus, which represents the best way to evaluate true test performance in the short-term, early data suggests that antigen tests do detect the omicron variant but may have reduced sensitivity.

The FDA

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The LRC's preliminary House map is an extreme partisan gerrymander, it is a danger to our system of government that upends established norms and the emphasis on local control and local voices that Pennsylvanians hold dear.

Kerry Benninghoff

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A preliminary review of the defendant's social media accounts, his cellphone, as well as other documented evidence recovered on scene showed that this defendant planned this shooting, he deliberately brought the handgun that day with the intent to murder as many students as he could.

Prosecutor Marc Keast

Found on CNN
2 years ago

From Read MoreDemographers preliminary forecast based on provisional data,( in 2021) it's going to be very likely to be around or even under 10 million births, and of course, with that number, the biggest news will be China is probably in a population decline.

James Liang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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