preliminaries

The added bonus is these people also tend to be just fine negotiating the preliminaries over more convenient email.

Leaving aside the preliminaries, once the shooting started the government had an armed insurrection within their borders.

If you're spending 100% of your time on hard stuff, you might be hurting these preliminaries.

I have a MiFi device, so I can get started with the preliminaries as my spouse drives.

I definitely recommend it to anyone that has the chance to go to preliminaries next year.

As for the selection process, this was just the preliminaries, it's far from over and the next step will be a lot more work.

Condensing the article's preliminaries, while expanding the parsing (and subsequent) sections and slowing down the pace, would likely make it better for both author and the reader.

I didn't have to go through several days of preliminaries -- just an eye exam from a local optometrist in advance of the surgery.

They hedge and address all sorts of preliminaries.

All untested explanations are also preliminaries to science.

In rare cases you may realize during the final screening that there's some fundamental incompatibilty, but if you do your due diligence in the preliminaries this really shouldn't happen.

If anyone goes to the link, use the index up front to skip past the preliminaries and get to the substantive parts - otherwise, it is a very long read.

Preliminaries" (♥) does claim to present a novel representation of recursive functions, but doesn't bother to mention the numerals.

The book Concrete Mathematics started as course notes for a class whose textbook initially was the (dense) "Mathematical Preliminaries" chapter of The Art of Computer Programming (Chapter 1 and roughly the first half of Volume 1), so it can be seen as an expanded and leisurely (and even more delightful, because of all the student jokes and other marginalia) version of that chapter.