Sentence examples for existed to begin from inspiring English sources

For one thing, prison and court records were destroyed or never existed to begin with, so figuring out who might be an escapee is largely a guessing game.

The alternative method for calculating customer assets is a glaring loophole that needs to be closed and should never have existed to begin with.

It is hard to name because it never really existed to begin with — not in the sense that it stemmed from a single time or place.

Your editorial blames citizenship backlogs for the problem, but that is just a symptom of a larger problem that should have never existed to begin with.

Police were sent to patrol the hallways of poor, minority-majority schools, and any presumption of innocence — if it had existed to begin with — was gone.

But the percentage of male lifers dropped sharply from 2001 to 2011; for women, the decline was much subtler because fewer female lifers existed to begin with.

The department's inspector general told the Senate Armed Services Committee that enough "credible information exists" to begin a investigation of the $21 billion lease deal.

Delury believes more aggressive diplomatic gestures could help ease the situation further, but only if the political will exists to begin even limited engagement with the regime.

No doubt he would be horrified to learn there was some self-appointed guardian, hellbent on shielding him from a controversy that did not even exist to begin with.

But if all minimum-wage policy had been held to this standard, the US federal minimum wage would not exist to begin with – since the initial jump, from $0 to $0.25, was certainly well "beyond the range studied in past research".

Bridging the gap between our own minds and other minds requires colossal efforts of deliberation, humility and cooperation, but recognizing why this gap exists to begin with can help start us on our way.