Meanings of preparatory measure in English

The injunction was a preparatory measure ahead of a Dec. 5 hearing of a lawsuit filed by Konstantin Ponomaryov, a former IKEA contractor.

Either the proprietors must be concealing or misinterpreting the law, or this was merely a preparatory measure, which would be followed by the real Emancipation.

As a preparatory measure, Farmer Blaize seized a wing of the bird, on which both boys flung themselves desperately, and secured it minus the pinion.

On the 26th she had prescribed for the railroads the preparatory measures for concentration.

Before proceeding, then, to the immediate measures for inducing sleep, let us consider the suitable preparatory measures.

Now these preparatory measures are of two kinds, and without them a considerable army even now cannot exist.

'The year before last the preparatory measures for the institution of constitutional government were published.

The preparatory measures for the organisation of the pioneer expedition were discussed and decided upon by the whole committee of the International Free Society.

Anything in the way of a formal attack, which would necessarily be announced to the enemy by preparatory measures, would not be likely to succeed.

On July 27th, the first information was received concerning preparatory measures taken by France: the 14th Corps discontinued the manoeuvres and returned to its garrison.