It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified the boast that a man was presumed to be innocent until he was 'found' guilty; but that presumption certainly ceased to have practical application, so soon as the Grand Jury had returned a 'true bill'.
. . . preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.
When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.
When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now. ' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me. ' That promise of his put me off.
When one has the right swing and enthusiasm, selling is not unlike hunting, a veritable sport. To scare up the game by preliminary talk and to know how long to follow it, to lose your gain through poorly directed argument, to hang on to game that finally eludes, to boldly confront, to quickly circle around, to keep on the trail, tireless and keen, till you have bagged some orders, there is some satisfaction in returning at night, tired of the trail, but proud of the days work done.
It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.
The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke.
Advanced yoga is not withdrawal from the world. That's a preliminary state.
Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.
Only. . . from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.
Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.
The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.