Sentence examples for as it opened from inspiring English sources

China announced a growth target of 7.5% and revealed plans to raise its defence budget by 12.2%, as it opened its annual parliament session in Beijing.

The seal retreated, shimmying back several feet even as it opened its bubblegum-pink mouth in a display of aggression.

The open-air museum pays homage to Western-inspired architecture that appeared in Japan as it opened its borders to foreign trade after 200 years of isolation.

As Mikhail Terentiev of Otkritie Capital says, that meant Magnit has had "no need to catch up with its size" even as it opened new and bigger stores.

All of a sudden, over my head, there was an opening in the cloud, and as it opened there was the Statue of Liberty looking down on me.

On Monday, it fell about a thousand points as soon as it opened, then regained about half of its losses and held on from there.

But for the purpose it was built, as the headquarters of Ukrainian communism, its days were numbered almost as soon as it opened.

"Vaux was off the job almost as soon as it opened," Morrison Heckscher, the museum's resident expert on its architectural past, said.

Its glamorous new building was a favorite destination as soon as it opened in 1995.

The U.S. seized momentum early as it opened the game with three shots in five minutes, but the game's opening goal didn't come until 30th minute.

The afternoon ended as it opened.