Significados de certain preliminaries en inglés

Torres was not one of those people who drop off to sleep without certain preliminaries.

Without certain preliminaries, the remainder would be unintelligible.

There are certain preliminaries to be gone through, but I will send you a paper of our rules.

I had deferred the performance of this engagement to this late hour, on account of certain preliminaries which were necessary to be adjusted.

"This is too informal, there are certain preliminaries that are necessary in such cases."