Sentence examples for commencing the first from inspiring English sources

"Many terrorists are still hiding in heavily fortified bunkers in very rugged territory," Mr. Bush said to a cheering crowd on the deck of the aircraft carrier Enterprise, which returned here last month from the north Arabian Sea after commencing the first bombing runs over Afghanistan.

The goddess provides some further instruction and admonition before commencing the first phase, the demonstration of the nature of what she here mysteriously calls "the unshaken heart of well-rounded reality" (fr. 1.29).

"We are commencing the first phase to connect the major new power generation we are expecting to arrive in Anglesey," said Martin Kinsay, a senior project manager with National Grid.

Sporozoites are liberated from the oocysts and rapidly invade the host intestinal epithelium, commencing the first of several asexual rounds of reproduction that rapidly amplify the number of parasites infecting individual birds.

In addition, we only looked at the delay in commencing the first definitive systemic therapy treatment.

Prior to the study commencing the first author had conducted 220 semi-structured interviews on previous research projects.

Future historians may well see such uncoordinated mayhem as commencing the third – and the longest and the strangest – of world wars.

This might, initially, be surprising because it is a common intuitive assumption that if a property is not sold during the first stage, then the property price should be reduced before commencing the second stage.

Nearly all the patients (64/66; 97%) who switched their ART regimen did so after 1 year of commencing the first-line treatment.

All short-acting COPD medications were thoroughly washed out prior to commencing the second treatment period.

Patients received study drug for 28 days in the first treatment period, then entered a 7-day washout period, during which they continued only with their background COPD medication, before commencing the second 28-day treatment period.