Sentence examples for had begun far from inspiring English sources

In the estimations of many, and knowing the singular dominance he had exhibited abroad since the early '80s, his time in the N.B.A. had begun far too deep in career twilight.

A big effort to train and equip the Afghan air force has begun far too late.

In recent years, prosecutors have begun far more regularly charging officials with leaking information to reporters under the Espionage Act, a World War I-era law.

Preparations had begun as far back as 1937, as Hitler looked increasingly threatening and a war from the air was predicted.

The federal government's top wage enforcement official said on Thursday that the Labor Department had begun a far-reaching investigation into possible minimum wage and overtime violations in the residential construction industry.

The day had begun on a far more upbeat note.

Richard Rosenfeld, a criminologist, made similar findings but noted that police activity, as measured by arrests, had begun declining as far back as 2010.

Even before the strike vote, workers were stewing, saying that management had begun treating them far worse after Cadbury Schweppes, the former owner, spun off its American beverages division in 2007, creating Dr Pepper Snapple.

By 1983, when Neil Kinnock became the leader of the Labour party at the depth of its electoral fortunes, Hobsbawm's influence had begun to extend far beyond the CP and deep into Labour itself.

Even before the financial crisis they had begun to implement far-reaching changes.

Since then, so much effort had been spent with so little result that a potential breakthrough had begun to seem far-fetched.