Sentence examples for beginning of the reckoning from inspiring English sources

This is only the beginning of the reckoning".

He argues (rightly, I am sure) that in western Germany the student revolt of 1968 was a sort of re-Germanisation of the state created by the western allies and the beginning of a reckoning with Hitler and the Holocaust.

It was the beginning of the end, he reckoned.

"The sugar-cane plant is now where corn was at the beginning of the 20th century," reckons Fernando Reinach, a biologist turned venture-capitalist at Votorantim, a conglomerate.

"We see this as the beginning of a reckoning with Britain's involvement with its colonial past," a spokesman said.

Fiona Sullivan's close-range strike then doubled Notts County's lead as Birmingham began to drift out of the reckoning, but Chelsea's fortunes also took a downward turn when Jill Scott's 24th-minute drive flew into the net for a Man City opener.

By the beginning of this year, the ONS reckoned that the number of jobs in the UK with no guaranteed hours was 1.5m.

It's the beginning of the end for smartphone apps as we have known and tapped on them, reckons Gartner.

Indeed, cases like Mr. Demjanjuk's are in some sense only the beginning of a process of reckoning and understanding, a process whose burden now falls not on the courts, but on the rest of us.

That is not bad going for a candidate who until the beginning of this month was reckoned by nearly everyone to be in third.

Just the beginning of a coming boom, reckon bouncy African financiers.But what really sets 21st-century Africa apart from its moribund 20th-century self is its improved financial management.