preparatory measures

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While some of his clients install these doors for entertainment, Humble tells The Times he feels safer with his preparatory measures in place.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2025

Last week the court brushed off the Governor's suit in one terse paragraph, which said that the presence of troops was part of "purely preparatory measures," and harmed no one.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the present merely preparatory measures would be taken, not a horse would be taken, not a reservist called up.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

They had it in contemplation, in 1795, to take repossession of Sambas, and wrote to Abdul Ramman as to the preparatory measures requisite, when the English war, as before observed, obliged them to abandon Pontiana.

From The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy by Keppel, Henry

A sufficient dose of tannate of pelletierine is 30–40 centigrams in wafer form, followed by a purge and with the other precautions and preparatory measures mentioned above.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers