(The Inauguration of Bill Clinton, for example, constituted the beginning of a political season).
They constituted the beginning of the Soviet SPRN network, the equivalent of the NATO BMEWS.
A surgical procedure more than 30 days after the first procedure constituted the beginning of a new episode.
The volcanic fallout constitutes the beginning of the father's demise.
The stage of transformation from shared mood to shared action constitutes the beginning of the true crowd or mob.
In this richly ambiguous structure, the newly introduced motive would be regarded by the criterion of key, as the second subject; in purely thematic terms, it might almost be said to constitute the beginning of the codetta, or concluding section.
By promoting a school curriculum for history as one which starts "at the beginning" and ends "at the end", one "driven by the cold steel of cause and effect", he ignores the questions raised by what constitutes the beginning; where is the end; who determines the causes and how does one identify the effects?
This unique singularity constitutes the beginning of the universe of matter, energy, space, time, and all physical laws.
By contrast, in the Persian summa, Philosophy for ʿAlāʼ al-Dawla (Dānišnāmah-yi ʿAlāʼī), and possibly also in the incompletely extant Eastern Philosophy (Al-Ḥikma al-mašriqiyya), the order is reversed and, as Avicenna himself avows, much more original: metaphysics constitutes the beginning, rather than the end, of theoretical philosophy.
It is certain: a decision constitutes the beginning in every case.
Given that the U.S. economy is once again the de facto engine of the global economy (given China's slowdown), far outpacing Europe and most other developed economies, there would appear to be little reason to believe that there are two consecutive quarters of negative growth or real GDP are in our near term future (which would constitute the beginning of a recession).
