The speaker's prefatory comments were meant to inform the audience of interesting activities happening after the conference. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : prefatory explanations. From Dictionary.com.
While others seem to have omitted the important detail of everything, what you put forward prefatory is unconstrained and perfectly stated. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Internationalization of US Policy Paralysis and the Collapse of American Diplomacy] Reference
The landlady first gave a kind of prefatory yell, which was only a prelude of war-whoop, introductory to that which was to follow. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.] Reference
And this is also why I'll nothing put as prefatory. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
According to the prefatory note of Lydia Sterne de. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Physicians, London, contributed the prefatory note. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
This occurs in the last of Harrison's prefatory matter. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
| Coleridge's famous manifesto in the prefatory note to |. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
The prefatory matter, Life, &c., will be fuller than in any. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
(For absence of these notices, see author's prefatory note.). From Wordnik.com. [Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party] Reference
To our comrades and friends we address these prefatory words. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
Serpent's part in the 'Fall' there was wanted a prefatory play on. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
(A reprint of Walpole's edition, with the prefatory memoir added.). From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature] Reference
With these prefatory remarks, I will give the legend as recorded by. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
To all of which I answered, after making the usual prefatory speech. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
Kipling, Rudyard: made hero an animal, 127; used prefatory beginning, 142. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
What the plan of the poem is Spenser explains in a prefatory letter to Sir. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
With these prefatory remarks, we may advise bleeding under certain conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
There are some prefatory remarks prefixed to the third satire in which he says. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850] Reference
The letter was introduced to the council by some prefatory remarks made by James. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
A prefatory chapter sets forth the object of the work, and the claims of the art. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
So, handing him a cigar, as a prefatory to conversation, I asked him our whereabouts. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
His prefatory discourse, respecting the number of martyrs, has been generally admired. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Without this prefatory sign-post, the reader could never have suspected such a purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
SELECTIONS FROM OVID; AMORES, TRISTIA, HEROIDES, METAMORPHOSES: with prefatory remarks. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850] Reference
How fine are those prefatory words, "by a Right Reverend Prelate," to that pioneer book in. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] Reference
English, himself adding the prefatory remarks, from which several quotations have been made above. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
He omits the prefatory remarks to "assume a virtue," but urges his mother to seek relief in Chicago. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 02, April 9, 1870] Reference
All this prefatory matter is merely to carry out the pretence, as do the Note and Postscript at the end. From Wordnik.com. [The Short-story] Reference
In 1838, there appeared in London an edition of his writings, with a prefatory sketch of his life, by the Rev. Alfred. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
But in these few prefatory words I should like to call attention to one or two points, and make some acknowledgments. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
In a prefatory note to the second edition of Paradise Lost, Milton delivered an arrogant but ineffectual counterblast. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
"I could not have invented them had I tried; I should not have tried if I could," Mr. Riis tells us in a prefatory note. From Wordnik.com. [Sight to the Blind] Reference
In the prefatory remarks to his speech on the day following the great speech made by Gen. Elliott on the same bill, he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
The Archbishop of Quebec, Mgr. Begin, wrote a prefatory note approving of the teaching of the book, and adding that Mother Marie. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
Of another misapprehension, namely, that Mr. Wilson lacks human warmth, I shall let the book speak without much prefatory comment. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
America and other countries, we may sum up this imperfect prefatory sketch by stating that, from a general point of view, the Gamle Norge. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
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