Sentence examples for be at the outset from inspiring English sources

Like any soapbox oration, no matter how clever it may be at the outset, repetition can dull the effect.

It was designed to be, at the outset, a splashy Broadway-style musical, budgeted at about $7 million.

As difficult and as uncomfortable as fending off demands for bribes may be at the outset, he said, it ultimately makes business easier.

Governments have done the same: Argentina defaulted on $82 billion in 2001 and 93% of the bondholders settled for discounts of around 65%. Puerto Rico appears to be at the outset of executing a similar strategy.

Bypassing the public sector — weak as it might be at the outset — to get pills to patients faster may have been easier and did address some of the symptoms of decades of nonexistent access to quality health care.

Broken and alone is exactly what Misty is at the outset of "Bound".

Written Kyrgyz literature arose from rich oral traditions and was at the outset exclusively poetic.

Its population is still lower than it was at the outset of the Second World War.

As dominant as the Tide was at the outset, Alabama also made three crucial mistakes.

Whatever happens on November 8th, we are at the outset of a much longer reckoning.

But as bad as the scenes were at the outset, they only got worse.