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Example sentences for "preliminarily"

Lexicographically close words:
prelatical; prelatist; prelats; prelections; preliminaries; preliminary; prelude; preluded; preludes; preluding
  1. We must still further preliminarily insist on the impassibility of matter; for by using the usual terms we might be misled into wrongly thinking that matter could be affected.

  2. The Norwegians were preliminarily disposed to be more patient, chiefly because they lacked spokesmen, the remnants of their old nobility being too powerless to assert themselves against the Danes.

  3. Haakon Sigurdsson lost no time in proclaiming himself king of all Norway, though he dispensed preliminarily with the ceremony of a formal proclamation at Oere-thing.

  4. Harold, who had been waiting for this opportunity to break his oath, did the same at Tunsberg; only he contented himself preliminarily with half the kingdom.

  5. The actual marriage was preliminarily postponed, on account of the tender age of the bride.

  6. This, indeed, they offered to accomplish, provided the present Statue were preliminarily destroyed; but as they were well assured that this offer would never be accepted, it was generally treated by those who refused it as a braggadocio.

  7. Had you conferred with him preliminarily to starting your operation on the chest so that you knew he would be standing by, I believe as you testified earlier, to perform the wrist operation?

  8. One must preliminarily have acquired the qualities necessary to drive a locomotive before deciding to set it going.

  9. The conclusions of the Consular Committee were then preliminarily examined and discussed.

  10. I replied that it was much more comprehensive and forceful than I had believed it possible for the nations preliminarily to agree upon.


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