The inspector named Jim paid the family a visit, conducting a preliminary interview.

This is a preliminary interview, informal, and if you wish, off the record.

She continued the preliminary interview by trying to get a sense of the young man she would be defending.

Specialists often notice pressures on the child at a preliminary interview with the child's parents.

"I'd love to get back to Jamaica," said the young man within seconds after the preliminary interview began.

Nearly all the Haitians remaining there have passed a preliminary interview and were not subject to forced return.

This will just be in the nature of a preliminary interview, of course.

One limitation of this process is that it requires information from preliminary interviews be correct.

"You mean in the preliminary interview he spoke something else?"

I want you to sit in on a preliminary interview and to inform me of your impression.