Sentence examples for have formally started from inspiring English sources

Now that the Miami Heat and the San Antonio Spurs have traded victories, each team slipping alternately into the role of heroic victor and pathetic also-ran as if it were trying on bathing suits for the summer, the N.B.A. finals have formally started.

Just two months after the peace talks had formally started, Stendal was invited by his former kidnappers to Havana.

That will breathe some fresh air into a campaign that feels as if it has been going on for months before it has formally started.

A free-trade zone in Shanghai that China's government has billed as a major step for financial reforms and economic experimentation has formally started.

The culture secretary has formally started the hunt for a new BBC Trust chairman, advertising a four-year role for a candidate to lead discussions on renewal of the corporation's royal charter in 2016.

The culture secretary has formally started the hunt for the chair of the new BBC board, offering a £100,000-a-year salary, £10,000 less than was taken home by former BBC Trust chair Rona Fairhead, with candidates requiring skills including "securing value for money".

"The consultation the pope makes through the Apostolic Nuncio takes a good number of months, and it hasn't formally started yet".

Russia and China have formally proposed negotiations to start a global treaty, proposing an arms control-style agreement, which the west opposes.

Officials confirmed today that the army has not yet formally started investigating the circumstances surrounding neither Bergdahl's five years in captivity nor whether he had abandoned his unit of free will when captured by militants.

They threw themselves on the mercy of American soldiers, but as hostilities had not yet formally started, they could not officially be taken prisoners of war.

Parents have to START asking their doctors if the drugs they are prescribing for their children have formally been found to be safe for them.