At its outset the Obama administration made clear that it wanted, in Secretary Clinton's words, "to see a stop to settlements -- not some settlements, not outposts, not 'natural growth' exceptions".
At its outset, most members are already involved in projects that could serve as pilots.
At its outset, the redevelopment plan sought to make those spaces economically viable again.
At its outset the aircraft-manufacturing industry was virtually self-contained in the producer's plant, with the exception of a few key products such as engines and tires.
At its outset the First World War was regarded as, in what now seems a tragic cliché, the "war to end war".
At its outset, in contrast, the commission was reviled by Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr .of Virginia as "a vehicle for witch hunting at its worst".
At its outset, the settlement was trumpeted as a way to hold banks accountable for foreclosure abuses and help homeowners harmed when the housing bubble burst, sending the housing market to its lowest level since the Great Depression.
At its outset the Union government owned 300,000 muskets and 27,000 rifles; the Confederacy had another 150,000 guns of various sorts; and there were tens of thousands of guns in private hands.
At its outset, Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, the Republican chairman of the committee, signaled his intent to keep the focus global — and away from the political drama over Mr. Comey's firing that has engulfed Washington.
At its outset, Althusser's bond with Hélène Rytman was complicated by his almost total inexperience with women and by her being eight years older than him.
At its outset, labour migration can be appreciated as a tentative enactment of distinctive "capacities to aspire"; put differently, an intransitive effort at obtaining something more, whatever the ways of defining it and the definitional clarity.
