Sentence examples for beginnings point from inspiring English sources

The building has no sign that hints at its use as a Muslim prayer space, but these modest beginnings point to a far grander vision: an Islamic center near the city's most hallowed piece of land that would stand as one of ground zero's more unexpected and striking neighbors.

From the movement's beginnings, the point of being a Davidian was to be different.

Beginnings, at this point, are irrelevant.

From its beginnings in College Point, Queens, EDO built up a business developing electronic aviation, marine and weapons systems for the military.

In each area of inquiry Philolaus appears to proceed by identifying the minimum number of archai, "beginnings" or "starting points," necessary to explain the phenomena in that area (Huffman 1993, 78 92).

At this point, the beginnings of what became known as the "great divergence" between Europe and Asia appeared.

From this vantage point, his beginnings, complicated and unhappy, seem to belong to another world.

It was not the most auspicious of beginnings, but it did point to a change of direction in the paper.

Like Chris Marker's pioneering sci-fi La jetée (which inspired Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys), Your Name spirals elegantly towards a point where beginnings and ends become indistinguishable, but does so more in the manner of a melancholy coming-of-age comedy than an abstract arthouse experiment.

Unknowingly these new beginnings can simply become points where we press the reset button for our old habits.

The solid pace, which came after two quarters of contraction and a quarter of just 0.2 percent growth, appeared to point to the beginnings of a long-awaited turnaround in the world's third-largest economy, after the United States and China.