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Definition of Preliminaries
1. preliminary [n] - See also: preliminary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preliminaries
Literary usage of Preliminaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"Such preliminaries are a treaty in themselves, embodying an agreement ...
Preliminaries are as binding as any other treaty, and therefore need ratification. ..."
2. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"... however, they treated the preliminaries signed by Mesnager on his visit to
England (October 8,1711) as open to change ; whereas in the instructions ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"At a very secret conference in the suburbs of Vienna the Preliminaries were drafted.
They corresponded in most respects with the proposals of the Maritime ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1921)
"An armistice ending hostilities necessarily contains certain preliminaries of peace.
This was true of the preliminaries of peace with Spain of August 12, ..."
5. The Control of American Foreign Relations by Quincy Wright (1922)
"Armistices and Preliminaries of Peace. But if it is difficult to draw the line
separating the power of the President and that of field officers and admirals ..."
6. The Control of American Foreign Relations by Quincy Wright (1922)
"An armistice ending hostilities necessarily contains certain preliminaries of peace.
This was true of the preliminaries of peace with Spain of August 12, ..."
7. A History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe by David Jayne Hill (1914)
"As for the allies, their interests would be considered in the congress that would
be called when the Anglo-French preliminaries were concluded; ..."
8. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1803)
"... explain that article of the preliminaries which respected the integrity of
Portugal, inasmuch as by one treaty Portugal had ceded a province to Spain, ..."
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