rudiment

He called the local demonstrations “highly organized” and a “rudiment of another color revolution,” implying foreign involvement.

His work on “Peggy Sue,” is a deceptively simple use of paradiddles, a rudiment that most beginning drum students are taught to practice with a metronome.

This gave me an idea, or the rudiment of one.

Small and flimsy, they offer some rudiment of shelter to the growing ranks of the homeless in a city that prides itself on the wealth of the banks and businesses that help make Britain’s economy the fifth largest in the world.

Nor would the campaign discuss with Politico, or with us, its intentions with regard to this rudiment of transparency.