Fortunately, the Mayor has time to turn this preliminary effort into a detailed blueprint by January, when his next financial plan is due.

The organization has launched a preliminary requirements-gathering effort to collect ideas and proposals from the Creative Commons community.

Some preliminary efforts in that direction had already occurred in 1913 and 1914.

Profiting thereby, The Shadow had given them a taste of fire during their preliminary efforts.

Rival Afghan opposition groups meet this morning in Germany in a preliminary effort to fashion a unified government.

Attempts are being made to directly recharge aquifers but this still a preliminary effort.

Luckily, the European Union has to some extent supported preliminary efforts now to solve these enormous problems.

It was speculated that the move would allow Sheekey to begin preliminary efforts for a Bloomberg presidential campaign in the 2012 election.

The Shadow, after careful preliminary efforts, had gone into a study of the code's peculiar make-up.

However, there are some indications that preliminary efforts may be overzealous.