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How to use the word Preliminary in a Sentence? Page #5

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Preliminary analysis suggests that a transition ... would add anywhere from $1.5 billion to $5 billion in additional costs..., the sooner a full RD-180 ban might start, the more disruptive it would be ... and the higher the cost would be.

Air Force Secretary Deborah James

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Rio de Janeiro won the right to host the Games because it had the best project. The difference in the votes, 66 to 32 against Madrid, excludes any possibility of an election that could have been rigged, french prosecutors and the Guardian newspaper do not make any reference to the Rio 2016 candidacy, they only cite the city as to exemplify a process which, according to them, had a problem in the preliminary phase.

Mario Andrada

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

French prosecutors and the Guardian newspaper do not make any reference to the Rio 2016 candidacy, they only cite the city as to exemplify a process which, according to them, had a problem in the preliminary phase.

Mario Andrada

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have done preliminary refurbishment work on the airport from outside, and now we are working on maintenance work inside the terminal, we expect the work to be completed within weeks and we hope that commercial flights would return then.

Mohammed Qobati

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The CDR will now take the necessary administrative steps, including informing (Chinook) to consider the preliminary approval canceled, and that the financial guarantee, which the company offered as a guarantee they would secure the required documents, will be claimed.

The CDR

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

At the preliminary hearing, several pieces of evidence were uncovered that cast doubt on the allegations made against him. Capt. Johnson looks forward to his day in court, and he is confident that he will be acquitted.

Kendall Gross

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Capt. Johnson has always adamantly maintained his innocence. At the preliminary hearing, several pieces of evidence were uncovered that cast doubt on the allegations made against him. Capt. Johnson looks forward to his day in court, and he is confident that he will be acquitted.

Kendall Gross

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We are interested in Manila Airport. A consortium including TAV has already received preliminary qualification to bid in a tender for a group of five airports in Philippines. Actually that will be a preparation for us for Manila Airport.

Chief Executive Sani Sener

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think it would be a mistake to offer normalized relations, i engaged in long, patient diplomacy to put together the sanctions on Iran that finally brought them to the negotiation table and actually began the preliminary negotiations that the President and Secretary (John) Kerry continued to completion.

Hillary Clinton on Thursday

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A preliminary investigation shows that up to four policemen carried out the attack, an operation is underway to arrest those responsible.

Dost Mohammad Nayab

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Two people who arrived from the Middle East were arrested at the weekend in accommodation for refugees on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organization, as part of the preliminary investigation, evidence suggesting a connection with the Paris attacks is being verified.

Robert Holzleitner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The board confirms that the company has received a preliminary approach from a third party regarding its interest in a possible purchase of the company's media assets, consideration of such proposal is at a very early stage and the terms of any potential transaction remain subject to discussion and to regulatory review.

South China Morning Post

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We got significant outcomes on trade secrets which is a really big issue, this is where China clarified its intent to make preliminary injunctions and meaningful remedies and other judicial protections more easily accessible to those who are confronting trade secret theft ... It's a big deal.

Penny Pritzker

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are some scholarships that come out of the legal marijuana industry but our preliminary research showed that this is the first to come from tax revenue.

Pueblo County spokeswoman Paris Carmichael

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Some companies are on the very preliminary basis looking at the possibility of finding shale gas, we have a few deposits of coal, but it's scattered and not in blocks, so they expect shale gas to be trapped around those areas and so will be looking at that instead of oil.

Viraphonh Viravong

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When the preliminary investigation leads to evidence there would be a formal investigation.

Sepp Blatter

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our office will proceed transparently by way of preliminary hearing.

James Hallinan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We believe that the statement of objection's preliminary conclusions are wrong as a matter of fact, law, and economics.

Kent Walker

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Preliminary results from evaluation of nine East African Highland bananas and plantains revealed that they can be infected with TR4. Only one cultivar remained disease free after eight months.

George Mahuku

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I can't remember a time in recent years where we had so many IPO (initial public offerings) files both live, ongoing, filing preliminary prospectuses, and in terms of pipeline, there seems to be an investor appetite in rotating into sectors relating to innovation.

Ungad Chadda

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Preliminary contacts were made with the insurgents by those ... involved in the previous negotiations, with a view to reviving the deal we struck last time, they (Boko Haram) have responded in the affirmative and so various channels are being explored.

Fred Eno

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

From a preliminary look conducted in Portland, it looked like microcystis, the toxic blue-green algae, but that's totally unofficial.

Travis Williams

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The focus of the preliminary (hearing) is to ask questions of these individuals so that they can assist in the preparation for the trial.

Mark Heerema

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He intends to spend more time in the two capitals (Riyadh and Sanaa) to discuss the draft principles paper which was developed here in Geneva - as he said, 'until we reach a preliminary agreement', as you know, before leaving us here in Geneva, he said both sides had shown signs of constructive engagement regarding the possibility of reaching a humanitarian truce and that there was emerging common ground upon which to build an eventual ceasefire coupled with the withdrawal of combattants.

The United Nations

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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