Examples of preamble

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In a nutshell, this is the most important part of the preamble to the resolution.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
I also accept the commitments you have requested regarding the five points referred to in the preamble to your resolution.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The preamble to the report is to be commended.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Just paying lip service to preserving environmental and social standards in the preamble is not enough.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Once again, there is evidence of people turning from traditional to neutral preambles, suggesting the use of neutral forms to hide personal theology.
Absence of introductory preambles, as if conversations and interactions were merely the continuation of an ongoing process.
Even less significant than the gender differences in will preambles are those between men from different levels of society.
Once again, the spectrum of choice is implied by the number of distinctive preambles employed.
By such means 17 categories of religious will preambles have been identified describing a spectrum of beliefs ranging from very traditional to distinctly protestant.
Nonetheless, the clearest conclusion to be drawn from this set of wills is that preference for neutral preambles was not distinguished by social position.
Scribal manipulation of neutral preambles is not the only aspect of this group of wills.
Protestant preambles increased only very slightly there during that time.
As a scribe he was responsible for 44 wills and employed 11 different preambles.
In men's wills the popularity of traditional forms was roughly equal to that of protestant preambles.
Many international covenants and conventions mention the inherent dignity of human beings in their preambles but become largely silent about dignity as soon as matters of application arise.
Consider sentences in statutory preambles, sentences in presidential speeches at bill-signing ceremonies, and sentences in judicial opinions that are not necessary to the resolution of the issue before the court.
The proportion of wills using neutral preambles stabilized at 85 per cent, while those using traditional soul bequests declined steadily and those expressing protestant beliefs began to increase very slowly.
The editors' brief explanations for some of the documents are generally well done, although it is not always clear why many of the documents lack such explanatory preambles.
Women and their scribes seem to have opted for neutral preambles in place of the traditional forms used earlier, as the popularity of neutral forms increased steadily through the 1570s.
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