Sunday 22nd August brings the 100th anniversary of Japan's annexation of Korea, an unjust treaty that was a prelude to Japanese atrocities on the peninsula.
The resolution was a prelude to more drastic actions.
This one could be a prelude to the anger and disillusionment that is only beginning to swell.
But a cleverer response is to suspend it temporarily-introducing "promotional" prices on selected goods, for example-as a prelude to a bloodier price war should the treachery continue.
Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank, sums up Mr Obama's plan this way: “It's a prelude to going for broke.
All of these arrangements were a prelude to the ball, the hostess 'ultimate prize.
His frequent depressions were the prelude to a complete mental breakdown.
The prelude of extension is to break the original pattern, and every time a metamorphosis, time is extended greater freedom.
But what really haunts the survivors of the latest disaster is the Irpinia earthquake that hit Campania and Basilicata in 1980. It was the prelude to a scandalous case of waste and corruption.
That was only a prelude to a two-week sojourn that historian John Lewis Gaddis would characterize as "a surreal extravaganza."
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