Sentence examples for drop the initial from inspiring English sources

"We had Gordie Howe to drop the initial puck for the ceremonial face-off," Berenson said, "and he said to me, 'I thought I'd seen everything in hockey -- this just blows it away.' And I felt the same way.

Mr. Assange's suspicions of political interference in the case were confirmed, he has said in recent days, by the decision of the Swedish prosecutors to drop the initial arrest warrant, and to downgrade the investigation to one of "molestation," a minor offense.

One of the more significant tweaks Toymail made to its original business model was to quickly drop the initial stipulation of a price for sending messages.

One of the more significant tweaks Toymail made to its original business model was to quickly drop the initial stipulation of a price for sending messages.

While it is not incorrect to say "ninakupenda," colloquial Swahili speakers drop the initial prefix "ni" and simply say "nakupenda".

In the first column box on the first row, drop the initial graphic of the "New Moon" and type in "New Moon" to make it clear what it is.

Some lawyers use what they imagine is the French pronunciation, dropping the initial "r," while my Texas law school professors rhymed it with "floor pyre".

After being sentenced in a plea deal that dropped the initial charges, Mr. Mirkarimi told reporters that he had accepted responsibility for his "arrogance and anger issues" but refused to say that he had injured his wife.

J. H. Whitney & Company, the nation's oldest venture capital firm, is dropping the initials of its founder, John Hay Whitney, to reflect its expansion overseas and into different kinds of assets.

Naturally numbers tend to drop after the initial rush, and the next week saw healthy sales of around 72,000.

In later works, Mr. Close has dropped the last initial and now uses just a first name for a title.