Sentence examples for began a gesture from inspiring English sources

Before the World Cup in South Africa in June, a minister in Mr. Mugabe's party, ZANU-PF, invited the North Korean soccer team, on behalf of Zimbabwe's tourism authority, to base itself in Bulawayo before the games began, a gesture that roused a ferocious outcry.

And so what began as a gesture of combined good faith by Muslims and non-Muslims has turned into a familiar game of New York City political football.

In 1987, Joseph Brodsky, the singular Russian poet of his generation, delivered a lecture in Vienna entitled "The Condition We Call 'Exile.' " He began with a gesture of humility.

Like many important signifiers of the 1990s, tattoos began as a gesture of rebellion and became so ubiquitous as to carry no stigma at all.

In 2013, in what would become one of the most high-profile cases in recent years, the Franco-Cameroonian comedian Dieudonné M'bala M'bala began encouraging a gesture that resembled a Nazi salute.

By David Remnick In 1987, Joseph Brodsky, the singular Russian poet of his generation, delivered a lecture in Vienna entitled "The Condition We Call 'Exile.' " He began with a gesture of humility.

Come on guys, be more imaginative!" What began as a gesture of cultural inclusion in the early millennium now feels like an inauthentic and lazy ploy to lure in the Chinese customer.

Some of the graduates in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies had bushy clumps of leaves or mock smokestacks atop their caps and stood and turned their backs on Mr. Bush as he began speaking, a gesture symbolizing their belief that he was turning his back on the environment.

The problem began with a gesture to give existing retirees a higher payout than they where entitled to through a thirteenth-month payment from 'surplus earnings'.

That began a sequence of angelic gestures from strangers that helped Perez enroll in college and rise to national prominence with a second-place finish at the USA Track and Field Championships last month in Eugene, Ore.

What begins in a gesture toward the permissive forms of received tradition (McSweeney begins with a query: "Is it ok... ..) soon becomes a neo-Whitmanesque self-admonition ("I loaf and invite myself to lock and load").