Sentence examples for a brisk start from inspiring English sources

And after a brisk start, reforms slowed.

The voting got off to a brisk start.

1.53pm GMT 47 min: A brisk start to the half for Chelsea, as you'd expect.

But he has made a brisk start in a new profession.

Earlier, Australia made a brisk start after Warner was allowed an early reprieve when Bresnan failed to get hands on a skied chance.

They made a brisk start, and then Cook and Jonathan Trott made half-centuries apiece, Trott producing collectors' items in a brace of sixes, his first in ODIs.

Even with Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican, as speaker of the House, the latter looks pretty hard; George Bush is keen to rein in spending, and doing favours to a Democrat is unlikely to be top of Mr Hastert's priorities.Mr Blagojevich has made a brisker start on his other big challenge to clean up the state's politics.

A nice, brisk start by Jason Day, who birdies 2 to move to -3.

Amelie Mauresmo got her US Open off to a satisfyingly brisk start, beating Marissa Irvin 6-4, 6-2 and the men's top seed Roger Federer was even more convincing, defeating the beating former French Open champion Albert Costa 7-5, 6-4, 6-4.

In an album review of Destiny Fulfilled, Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly felt that "Lose My Breath" opened the record with "a brisk enough start" and concluded, "While it's no 'Bootylicious,' it's got more nervous energy and verve than almost anything else here".

Another nice brisk start for MJ.