At the meeting, to be held later this month or in early December, the government wants to address " a range of preliminary matters in order to pave the way for the resumption of substantive talks very early next year,"
32.
The government wants to address at the meeting later this month or early December " a range of preliminary matters in order to pave the way for the resumption of substantive talks very early next year, " said G . L . Peiris.
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In practice, judges will sometimes permit leading questions on direct examination of friendly witnesses with respect to preliminary matters that are necessary to provide background or context, and which are not in dispute; for example, a witness's employment or education.
34.
The opening line of each of the sections of the preliminary matter is enlarged and decorated ( see above for the " Breves causae " of Luke ), but no other section of the preliminaries is given the same level of treatment as the beginning of the " Breves Causae " of Matthew.
35.
First, a preliminary matter : Respondents contend that we should treat this as a case in which freedom of speech ( the Klan's right to present the message of the cross display ) was denied because of the State's disagreement with that message's political content, rather than because of the State's desire to distance itself from sectarian religion.
36.
As a preliminary matter, the Court rejects plaintiff's contention that this case involves equal protection claims based not only on sexual harassment, but also on sexual assault and offensive conduct in violation of laws other than Title VII . In its August 22 Memorandum Opinion and Order, this Court recognized that a sexual assault can be a constitutional violation under Section 1983, but concluded that plaintiff's allegations, even if true, were insufficient to state such a claim.
37.
The Court allowed Norse Energy to be substituted for Anschutz . " As a preliminary matter, " they approved " Supreme Court's denial of DRAC's motion to intervene ", based on the group's failing to prove " a substantial interest . . . different from other residents of the Town . " Rather, noting the Town could do a good job at defending its interests, instead granted " amicus " status to DRAC and a half dozen others.
38.
{{ Cquote | 109 Consequently, in accordance with Article 48 EC, in the absence of a uniform Community law definition of the companies which may enjoy the right of establishment on the basis of a single connecting factor determining the national law applicable to a company, the question whether Article 43 EC applies to a company which seeks to rely on the fundamental freedom enshrined in that article like the question whether a natural person is a national of a Member State, hence entitled to enjoy that freedom is a preliminary matter which, as Community law now stands, can only be resolved by the applicable national law.
39.
The FCC adopted rules in February 2003 that allowed Mobile Satellite Service ( MSS ) licensees such as LightSquared to construct a small number of ancillary ground-based towers in their licensed spectrum to " promote more efficient use of terrestrial wireless spectrum . " In those 2003 rules, the FCC stated " As a preliminary matter, terrestrial [ Commercial Mobile Radio Service ( CMRS ) ] and MSS ATC are expected to have different prices, coverage, product acceptance and distribution; therefore, the two services appear, at best, to be imperfect substitutes for one another that would be operating in predominately different market segments . . . MSS ATC is unlikely to compete directly with terrestrial CMRS for the same customer base . . . ".
