Sentence examples for almost at the outset from inspiring English sources

But Hubbard missed his intended route almost at the outset and within six months was dead of starvation and exposure.

That's why I said almost at the outset of this conversation that if someone's going to propose an initiative, you've got to say how you're going to pay for it.

As the judges outlined it yesterday, the conflict began almost at the outset of the case in 1997 when the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association arranged for lawyers for Mr. Schwarz and one of the other officers, Thomas Bruder.

XVI 32), which he made sound almost like Scarlatti at the outset, with a dry, detached touch, before nudging it toward a more Romantic fluidity in the later movements.

"I think we did a really good job with the polish, which is part of why I think it got such almost fawning coverage at the outset.

The Third Quartet (2010-14) comes dangerously close, by Wandelweiser standards, to possessing a conventional structure: it progresses from dusky, almost Chopinesque chords at the outset to something like luminous E-flat major at the end.

My preparation was at its most intense at the outset.

Save a Prayer was the first ballad they released as a single, featuring an immediately identifiable yet mysterious, almost arabesque, musical ululation at the outset and throughout.

Liam Henderson scored his first Celtic goal in the victory over Partick Thistle on Wednesday and almost doubled that tally at the outset of the second half.

Flaws emerged almost from the outset.

The initiative, however, was doomed almost from the outset.