Sentence examples for a serious start from inspiring English sources

Mexico has not made a serious start on either front, according to Buscaglia.

The British defense minister, Liam Fox, said that the talks needed to make a serious start toward resolving the issue.

"If climate negotiators in Marrakech can build momentum for further cuts in emissions, we could be making a serious start to addressing climate change," Le Quéré said.

It was a big day for the 14 female MPs, who had tirelessly pushed for the bill in the hope that it would be a serious start to a series of changes in Iranian legal system - and an attempt to repair the Islamic republic's terrible international image on human rights.

For instance, a speech about cancer would demand a serious start and serious tone, while one about the history of the yo-yo would be very lighthearted.

His plan was greeted as a serious starting point, even by advocates of wholesale reform.

Willis pitched an inning in relief in Game 5. Helling is the long reliever and presumably not a serious starting candidate, and Redman made his shortest start of the season in Game 2 at Yankee Stadium, when he was knocked out in the third inning of a 6-1 Yankees victory.

However, when you consider the ramifications – that your car can tell people where it is, that you're going to be getting shoes or a blender hidden in your car at some point, and that this is actually a serious start-up – and you start to wonder if Nick De May isn't crazy… like a fox.

But if you want a serious starting point for tax reform, you should look at Simpson-Bowles or Domenici-Rivlin, both of which spelled out actual tax expenditures they would close (or Feldstein, Feenberg, and MacGuineas, or White House Burning, or any one of many other policy proposals that do the same).

But HBO has had a serious head start.

If, as Orwell said, everyone has the face he deserves at fifty, Cruz, who is only forty-two, has got a serious head start.