McCartney is happy to acknowledge that he wields the kind of clout that means he can embark on a personal correspondence with the Dalai Lama.
When a person is determined to speak at length but not in depth, he can embark on a long jog of feihua — literally, wasted words — or perhaps pass the time at the podium by slathering honored guests in polite ketaohua.
His aides say he expects to have to go to elections in the next year, before he can embark on his plan and begin uprooting the Israeli settlements in Gaza.
Chan hopes that by the time his wound heals there will be peace so that he can embark on the long walk back to Leer in search of his missing family members.
Once Woolf has invented Judith Shakespeare, the poet's sister who eventually kills herself, she can embark on a review of the creative lives of her great predecessors – Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Brontë sisters, of whom she wrote, that Charlotte Brontë, burnt by rage, died "at war with her lot… young, cramped and thwarted".
Callahan executives say they are not worried, but admit that they will have to build additional capacity into the systems before they can embark on their plans for offering full broadband services to customers.
When the remnants of the company reach the port, before they can embark for Jerusalem a deliberate and collective act of outrage on one of their number, old and blind and helpless, has to take place.
By the time we perfect simulation technology, he speculates, we will probably have achieved ethical maturity, and so will care about the people we simulate; we may even find ways to "promote" them into our simulation when they die, so that they can embark on an endless process of resurrection-through-ascension.
Financial institutions, bound by charters that describe the types of investments they can embark upon, have had few means of putting their money into bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies.
Women might be able to be full persons, subjects with agency, but only at the expense of their femininity; or they can embark on the course of femininity, but only by sacrificing their independence and agency.
Hereafter, researchers using human tissues (see sidebar) will have to get their proposals approved by an appropriately constituted research ethics committee or institutional review board before they can embark on their work.
