preliminary question

I do have to ask one or two preliminary questions.

After a few preliminary questions about my trip and how everybody was doing, she got to the point.

Today, I am going, however, to tackle a more global problem and ask a sort of preliminary question.

I therefore ask the House to reject this preliminary question.

The officer will typically approach the driver's window and ask some preliminary questions.

Five preliminary questions were posed for determination by the Court.

We did get to ask the students and Kitchener a few preliminary questions.

After asking him preliminary questions, Wolff got right to the point.

This preliminary question seemed to be addressed more to himself than to anyone else, or to the Sword itself.

They were preliminary questions; Bosch knew he couldn't have missed much.

Finally, there is the problem of the preliminary question.

At the start of the debate, the preliminary question we tabled was not put to the vote.

But perhaps it is best to take a few steps back and begin with the preliminary question: why an exhibition of the nude?

After the usual preliminary questions the attorney for the defense asked him if he was employed in the plant on the afternoon of March 24.

There is, however, a preliminary question to be discussed.

That is why I am raising this preliminary question.

Our first meeting was in a county auditorium, where Radovich asked some preliminary questions, what people saw and thought they knew.

Such preliminary questions can involve fact, law or discretion.

A preliminary question in the case was whether the challenged regulations were authorized by the 1970 Federal law that established the family planning program.

The case in question related to and a preliminary question of infringement.

Vulpin asked the routine preliminary questions: name, residence, age.

Madam President, I request the rejection of this preliminary question for two reasons.

He pauses briefly, then says, "Just some preliminary questions that I need for my own files, okay?"

But the leadership could only muster 1,200 votes today on a preliminary question on the amendment's merits.

When the preliminary questions were over, the panel was down to seventy-nine duly qualified jurors.