The phrase "a harsh start to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an unpleasant or difficult beginning to a situation, event, or experience.
Example: "The team faced a harsh start to the season, losing their first three games."
Alternatives: "a tough beginning to" or "a difficult onset of".
Indeed, all Tolkien's phonetics are absorbed into Paolini's work: vowels are good, especially "E" and "A"; harsh starting consonants are suspicious, especially "K"; and though Paolini substitutes "X"s and "Z"s for Tolkien's evil sibilant "S s, they both practice guilt by phoneme.
If they do not improve, Ken Berger writes on CBSSports.com, more of the harsh spotlight will start to fall on Carmelo Anthony and less on Lin.
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Players can either behave in an entirely happy way and help other characters — and have an easier go of it in the wasteland — or choose more selfish, destructive behavior with a harsher outcome, including a Mickey that starts to physically resemble a rat.
Others, in graphite, are full of contrasting lines and textures; tightly wound figures depicted in a harsh stop-start, somewhat hairy line cavort on floorboards textured with minute, ineffably soft curls of spiraling lines.
She and others agree this will take years, but before that, the company may start to run into the harsh realities of creating growth amid long-term decline.
It has turned the spotlight on to their estimable captain, Andrew Strauss, and if his side were to lose the two-match series in Sri Lanka next month he may start to wilt under its harsh glare.
The bill would start to roll back the harsh federal sentencing laws that have helped fill America's prisons.
"A couple of penalties against us were harsh but we are starting to reap the rewards we have put in this season.
"One member wanted to know how long it took before a harsh judgment on any historical figure starts to lessen". Supporters of the name change say the move is a small gesture to honor one of the nation's best-loved authors whose book, "Roughing It," helped popularize Nevada.
