Sentence examples for beginning direct from inspiring English sources

China issued a stern and disappointed response today to the American announcement that Washington was withdrawing support for China's closest ally in Cambodia and beginning direct talks with Vietnam, China's bitterest rival in Asia.

Zarif's offer to join forces with the west comes at a critical moment: the UN and the ISGG member countries meet in New York in a bid to meet the 1 January deadline, set in Vienna last month, for beginning direct, formal talks between the regime of Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, and opposition groups.

He said that Mr. Netanyahu held the key to beginning direct talks, which would involve an Israeli commitment to resume negotiations from the point at which they ended in December 2008 and a freeze of all Israeli settlement construction, including in East Jerusalem.

The government of Afghanistan is close to beginning direct peace talks with Taliban insurgents for the first time, according to senior Afghan officials.

In the meantime, Compaq has announced that it will begin direct selling.

On Thursday, Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Abbas are to begin direct talks.

In welcome news, the US recently began direct talks with the Taliban.

THE BASICS Fast-expanding Qatar Airways (www.qatarairways.com) began direct nonstop service from Kennedy Airport to Doha last year.

They began direct attacks upon foreigners and on foreign-built railway and telegraph lines in late 1899.

Mr Obama will be keen to find a way to encourage Israeli and Palestinian leaders to begin direct talks again.

One recommendation that Talabani had no problem with was that President Bush begin direct talks with Syria and Iran.