preparatory procedures

Preparatory procedures for bringing a suspect to trial.

Now is a good time to consider, for example, how we might learn from the delay in the preparatory procedures for programmes for the next period.

She was fully awake during some of the terrifying preparatory procedures, the same ones I had (though I was safely under sedation the whole time).

Dr. Furberg is not an Arthritis Drugs Committee member; however, as part of our preparatory procedures, last week the Advisory Committee staff anticipated that Dr. Furberg could make a valuable contribution to the meeting as a consultant and following normal operating procedures contacted him to ascertain his availability.