0 an introduction to a speech or piece of writing
1 an introduction to a speech or piece of writing:
the preamble to the Constitution
The proposals incorporate preambles which set out the legal, practical and economic grounds for their substantive provisions.
We have had your preambles before, and we know that tyranny feeds upon tyranny.
Clearly, the intention expressed in those preambles is not being achieved.
Here we seem constantly to have disregarded the general wording of the preambles to the treaties.
Let me say if a few words about preambles.
I read from one of the preambles of the proposed protocol which is on page 8 of the document.
I should like to start by reading out some of these preambles.
The preambles of treaties should be taken into account when interpreting the wording of those treaties.
