prefatory
IPA: prˈɛfʌtɔri
adjective
- Serving as a preface or prelude; introductory, preliminary.
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Examples of "prefatory" in Sentences
- "Everything here is true," he proclaims in a prefatory note.
- For good measure there is even a prefatory skiffle session and musical interludes by Grant Olding.
- There was no prefatory statement (to my knowledge) saying “These things I believe, now and forever”?
- The landlady first gave a kind of prefatory yell, which was only a prelude of war-whoop, introductory to that which was to follow.
- While others seem to have omitted the important detail of everything, what you put forward prefatory is unconstrained and perfectly stated.
- But last year, and again yesterday morning, I became thoroughly fixated on one strange aspect of those moving, prefatory, deeply private moments in the Garden of Gethsemane (Mark 14: 32 – 42).
- The question-begging leap of logic here is Posner's interjection of "since," when dealing with the connection between the what's known as the prefatory and operative clauses of the 2nd Amendment.
- By reading the amendment backwards, Scalia begins with an unfettered right "to keep and bear arms" (look, that's what it says!), and, having established such a right, the mere "prefatory" words of the first half of the amendment become nothing more than window dressing.
- There's the usual prefatory shenanigans with father Pod (Christopher Eccleston) mountain-climbing the stairs to get into a tin of Quality Street, while his bored teenager Arrietty (Aisling Loftus) sulks in her sleeping bag (a hiking sock) and missus Homily (Sharon Horgan) busies herself in a kitchenette fashioned from pencil stubs and bottle tops.
- Legal Adviser Koh alluded to the importance and, within the executive branch and the State Department, the independent weight of that traditional jurisprudence in the beginning of his speech, in which he made some important — but by the press largely not-understood as being important — prefatory framing remarks about the internal jurisprudence of the executive branch.
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