Under Reagan and Thatcher we had embarked on this era of deregulation and privatisation, much of which the subsequent Clinton administration and New Labour governments accepted.
Villa then embarked on a wretched run of two wins in 21 matches, plummeting down the table and stinking the place out with a strain of football that yielded an average of less than half a goal per Premier League game.
Farron is understood to have written to the commission complaining that the newspaper embarked on a "fishing expedition" in which there was no justification for secretly recording MPs at their constituency surgeries.
The prime minister has already embarked on a cross-European tour to drum up support for restructuring the EU – including limits on benefits for new migrants and a greater role for national parliaments – which he has promised to deliver before putting Britain's membership to a vote.
That explains why Osborne has embarked on his productivity drive.
The coalition has already embarked on a series of attempts to bolster competition, including making it easier for new banks to be set up.
Whether the government was intent on pleasing the tabloids I don't know, but it has never embarked on a serious effort to reduce the prison population.
Clegg sought to press home the case for higher tuition fees today by insisting the plans will make universities "more effective engines of social mobility" and that the policy will "stand the test of time", as he embarked on a last-ditch offensive to dispel "unhelpful myths", notably that the new funding system will worsen social mobility.
Gorbachev had embarked on his effort to reform the sclerotic Soviet state and concluded that the wiser option was to continue cultivating the British prime minister for the sake of relations between the two countries.
Right now, we are in Harbin, north-eastern China, where we settled so that Zac could improve his Chinese by going to a local school, a project we embarked on with close to zero idea of how difficult it would be.
Back in London, I embarked on a revival of last year's production.
