The truth, harsh or otherwise, is there has never been a tour in which so many have embarked with such great expectations and been rewarded with such hard times.
This essay puts forward the argument that while trade ties as one important channel of bilateral relations that China has embarked with the outside world and particularly with Africa is uneven and lop-sided.
All of which is to say I have embarked, with the kids, on finding Vic some hobbies.
I removed one of the casseroles my wife had left me before the start of the grand culinary adventure I had embarked upon with such hope, and set it in the microwave.
The Junk Raft had embarked from Long Beach, California, with a crew of two, its sendoff broadcast on local television.
In spite of the obvious economic gain to be had from conquering Egypt, the caliph ʿUmar I, according to some sources, showed reluctance to detach ʿAmr's expedition from the Syrian army and even tried to recall the mission once it had embarked; but ʿAmr, with or without the caliph's permission, undertook the invasion in 639 with a small army of some 4,000 men (later reinforced).
Appian claims that Lucullus had embarked from Rome with only a single legion; upon entering Anatolia to make war against Mithridates, he added four more legions to his army.
Cameron had embarked on the project with a San Diego-based tech firm, Malin Space Science Systems, several years ago.
He had embarked on the work with his adoptive kid-brother-protégé, the talented young writer and geographer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro.
She had embarked on a novel with the modern-sounding title "The Cubical City", was trying to compose poetry, and occasionally wrote articles for newspapers and magazines.
