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Example sentences for: preparatory

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The paper reports that Milosevic is meeting with Boris Yeltsin today and that yesterday, in a preparatory 40 minute phone call with Bill Clinton, Yeltsin said he would express in the meeting a strong preference for a diplomatic resolution.
In fact, much of her imaginative writing seems to me a mere preparatory sketch for her real work of genius, which is the self-promoting--but undeniably original--criticism that explicates it.
Travelers on their way to or from Rome will be especially interested in Raphael’s cartoons (preparatory drawings) for his School of Athens fresco in the Vatican.
First: The school must stick to its goal of providing a high-quality preparatory education.
All samples were precipitated with TCA and resuspended in gel loading buffer preparatory to electrophoresis.